Beethoven's 'Les Adieux' Piano Sonata HD

Beethoven's 'Les Adieux' Piano Sonata HD

2020

Music

19 Min

TV-PG

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.

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