HMU111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Septet (Beethoven), Heiligenstadt Testament, Carl Czerny
1 Apr 2016
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Wanted to make career in vienna and study with mozart. Renowned concert performer and improviser, especially for royal patrons. Bringing symphonic elements to piano: adding 4th movement in some piano sonatas, played with more legato. Carl czerny (beethoven"s student) and all other pianists found it impossible to play cpe bach"s music with same legato as beethoven did: more fortepianos built for beethoven to play legato (wider range, sturdier) Piano sonata content suffering, but refusal to give up: oratorical dramaticism, his music followed its own inner laws, achieving new realization of the tonal language in works of highly individualized character. Studied with haydn for two years after arriving in vienna (1792) Wrote lieder, piano variation sets, piano sonatas, piano quartets before settling in vienna. Mastered viennese style in 1792-1802 in op. Describes his suffering from losing his hearing, insecure and terrified.
