Sonata No. 1 (3rd Movement: Allegretto)
Sonata · in F minor · Op. 2, No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
F minor
Key
Sonata
Form
Allegretto
Tempo
Op. 2, No. 1
Catalogue
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Themes & character
Minuet and trio·From his first sonata·Classical inheritance·Composed 1795
At a glance
- Catalogue
- Op. 2, No. 1
- Key
- F minor
- Tempo / character
- Allegretto
- Form
- Sonata
About the piece
The third movement of Beethoven's Op. 2 No. 1, a minuet and trio in F minor. Including a minuet at all shows the young composer working inside the four-movement classical plan he inherited from Haydn, to whom the sonata is dedicated.
Within a few years Beethoven would replace the courtly minuet with the faster, rougher scherzo in almost every comparable work, so movements like this one mark a form he was about to leave behind.
The composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770–1827
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, and pianist. Regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, he was mentored during the Classical period, and his musical style was a key driver of the transition to Romantic music, and the expansion of instrumental forms such as the symphony, the piano sonata and the string quartet. His compositions have attracted extraordinary casual and scholarly interest, and remain among the most performed in the world.
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