During the last year of the old century Beethoven had found himself occasionally bothered by a weakness in hearing. By 1801 he was facing the approach of total deafness. Miserable and embarrassed, he swore his friends to secrecy, avoided social gatherings, and plunged himself further into work. In 1826, Beethoven caught a chill while taking his nephew to join the army. It turned to pneumonia, and he died on March 26, 1827.

Beethoven Sonatas op.2 No. 1 in F minor

This first set of his sonatas Beethoven dedicated to Haydn, the leading mu

These two-measure units are then compressed to single bars, half-bars and single beats before the process dissolves into the silence marked by a fermata in the eighth measure. At the same time, Beethoven emphasizes the melodic ascent from A flat to B flat, highest tones in the right hand, reaching a climax at the broken chord with highest tone C played fortissimo ¡V a sonority that is itself a compression of the initial rising arpeggio.

The prestissimo finale is in sonata form of a special type. In the exposition and recapitulation, the arpeggios from the opening Allegro become an agitated texture in triplets supporting powerful chords in the treble. In the development, by contrast, an expressive tune emerges in A flat major that is adorned in melodic variations. The development thus becomes a last focus of lyricism in the sonata before the music re-enters the turbulent dramatic idiom in F minor.

In this Allegro in sonata form, Beethoven develops an integrated network of motivic relations to convey

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