Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Beethoven's Violin Sonata no. 5

The Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Opus 24, is a violin sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is often known as the "Spring" sonata, and was published in 1801. Its dedicatee was Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom the fourth violin sonata, the string quintet of the same year, and the seventh symphony were also dedicated.


The work is in four movements:


Allegro


Adagio molto espressivo


Scherzo: Allegro molto


Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo


The Scherzo and its trio are particularly brief (and as pointed out here the scherzo is canonic).

~Wikipedia
 
To you music people out there, this probably makes sense.  But not everybody is a music people, I will explain.
 
Basically what the previous quote means is that Beethoven's 5th violin sonata is a sonata (duh) with four totally awesome movements.  It really is sweet sounding.
 
To show you how awesome it actually is, I have imbedded videos of all four movements.
 








 
By the way, I have a recital coming up in about a week and I'm planning on learning this after it.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKf043MXTYA
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qLMxTWxcIQ&feature=related
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrRX5iyqS7g&feature=related
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LKYLP-zvHA&feature=related

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