
Beethoven's 'Les Adieux' Piano Sonata HD
2020
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Music
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19 Min
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Carnegie Hall+
Unusually, this sonata's movements have titles: Farewell, Absence, and Reunion. Beethoven wrote the work after Napoleon's 1809 invasion of Vienna, which forced the composer's patron, Archduke Rudolph (also the work's dedicatee), to flee.