Ferdinand Ries was Beethoven's student and a fine pianist who gave the premiere of his teacher's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. His own music is clearly in Beethoven's debt, but it was popular enough to hold its own in the early nineteenth century. Ries certainly understood Beethoven's revolutionary innovations quickly enough. The two sonatas on this disc, although not published until 1817, were composed in 1807 or 1808, and they are full of attempts to replicate Beethoven's dramatic strokes. Consider the D flat ...
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Ferdinand Ries was Beethoven's student and a fine pianist who gave the premiere of his teacher's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37. His own music is clearly in Beethoven's debt, but it was popular enough to hold its own in the early nineteenth century. Ries certainly understood Beethoven's revolutionary innovations quickly enough. The two sonatas on this disc, although not published until 1817, were composed in 1807 or 1808, and they are full of attempts to replicate Beethoven's dramatic strokes. Consider the D flat major opening of the slow introduction of the Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 11/2, and the way the implications of the unstable tonality are carried through the movement. The Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op. 11/1, is very different in mood, akin in spirit to many of Beethoven's lighter works. The serene opening movement with its noble second theme is unusually pleasant among the works by Ries that have appeared on disc thus far. The basic thematic material has a squareness that...
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