The stated intent of this Berlin Classics release is to situate the works of the mature Haydn, the soon-to-be-dead Mozart, and the young Beethoven at the dawn of the revolutionary movements that convulsed France going forward from 1789. Doubtless there is a connection between innovative music of the time and its revolutionary spirit. No historical theory is required to show that, for Viennese censors themselves were deathly afraid of The Marriage of Figaro. And Beethoven's radical innovations would take on political ...
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The stated intent of this Berlin Classics release is to situate the works of the mature Haydn, the soon-to-be-dead Mozart, and the young Beethoven at the dawn of the revolutionary movements that convulsed France going forward from 1789. Doubtless there is a connection between innovative music of the time and its revolutionary spirit. No historical theory is required to show that, for Viennese censors themselves were deathly afraid of The Marriage of Figaro. And Beethoven's radical innovations would take on political overtones soon enough. But correspondences of this kind inevitably break down when you try to wrap them up in a simple package, and that's what happens here. Pianist Sebastian Knauer starts out defending the thesis energetically in his own booklet notes, but he runs up against problems and more or less trails off into discussions of each individual work and its history. One of those problems is that only the Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat major, Hob. 16/49, was actually composed in 1789; the...
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Franz Joseph Haydn; Ludwig van Beethoven; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
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