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Beethoven's sonata for piano opus 10

number three

if you have watched the sequence on the

moonlight sonata and even more so

another one where it talked about the

impossibility of speaking about music

because when we do that we think we do

that we only talked about our reaction

to the music what we see me

according to our knowledge according to

our mood but not really today about the

essence of music music expresses itself in sound.

Today i would like to tell you

a little story about the last movement

of one of Beethovens most wonderful early

Sonatas or Christine number three.

When i was a child i went to the master

class of Edward Fisher great Swiss

pianist one of the greatest musicians i

think i ever met and he taught give a

lesson on the last movement of this Sonata

which goes something like this

and he spent the whole lesson talking

about the humor in this music and the

humor showed itself by these three notes

of the beginning being interrupted by

the silence and then being repeatedly

and he thought this was a perfect

example of humor in music.

and it was very convincing and I

remember the person who was playing the

piano had great difficulty to express

what the great master was telling him

but it tryed and did it somewhat.

Quite a fewyears later I went to a recital of

another great pianist that I greatly

admire Claudio Arrau. Claudio Arrau was one

the most serious musicians that ever

came on this earth.

He was able to see the dark side and the tragic side in the

most innocent music and I went to have

dinner with him after his concert and he

gave me a long lecture about the tragic

nature of the last movement of page of

the sonata opus ten number three

just imagine he said to me "Just imagine

three notes immediately interrupted as

if they are dying and then comes again

and again they're interrupting. It is the

inability of these three notes to become

something continues and create a melody

this is the very essence of tragic

expression in music.

And then the music gets going.

For me this has remained a perfect example of

the dangers of choosing objectives to

explain the music.

Music can really only be explained through sound.

Thank you very much for watching this sequence.

I hope you have enjoyed it and that would

be very delighted to read or hear your comments.

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