Violin Sonata No. 6 (Beethoven)
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The Violin Sonata No. 6 of Ludwig van Beethoven
in A major
, the first of his Opus 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803
, and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia
. It has three movements
:
The work takes approximately 22 minutes to perform.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
in A major
A major
A major is a major scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has three sharps.Its relative minor is F-sharp minor and its parallel minor is A minor...
, the first of his Opus 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803
1803 in music
-Events:* 5 April - first performance of Beethoven's third piano concerto* 26 December - Haydn performs his last public concert, conducting The Seven Last Words of Christ-Classical Music:*Ludwig van Beethoven**Christus am Ölberge, oratorio...
, and dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia
Alexander I of Russia
Alexander I of Russia , served as Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and the first Russian King of Poland from 1815 to 1825. He was also the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland and Lithuania....
. It has three movements
Movement (music)
A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession...
:
- Allegro
- Adagio molto espressivo
- Allegretto con variazioni
The work takes approximately 22 minutes to perform.
External links
- Performance of Violin Sonata No. 6 by Corey Cerovsek (violin) and Paavali Jumppanen (piano) from the Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumIsabella Stewart Gardner MuseumThe Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court, as the museum was known during Isabella Stewart Gardner's lifetime, is a museum in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts and near the Back Bay Fens...
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