Beethoven said once he was determined to change the tone of his compositions, he did so and this is taken as the beginning of the 3er period. As to the second one, it must be a convention established by musicologists or some of the people who knew him. Now, consider the piano sonata quasi una fantasia, no1. Can this be said to stylistically belong to the 2nd period? I know that, chronologically speaking, it belongs to the 1st period.
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Yes, the first piano sonata of the second period is actually Op.26. There is no clear stylistic dividing line with the sonatas, unlike the Symphonies, but the years 1800-3 were a transition period in Beethoven's creative process marked by increasing despair over his deafness and culminating in the Heiligenstadt Testament of Oct 1802.'Man know thyself' -
Well, after listening to sonatas 1-12 in sequence [in a row, one after the other], I knew this one had to mean something new in Beethoven's style. Though maybe certain familiarity with this sonata psycologically interfered and I was right only by chance. Thanks for your post.Last edited by Enrique; 03-22-2013, 08:04 PM.Comment
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