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Approaching the Sketches for Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata
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Contrary to his usual procedure, Beethoven seems to have composed the "Hammerklavier" Sonata without the aid of a desk (or standard-format) sketchbook: the surviving desk sketches for the sonata are to be found on a number of loose leaves and bifolia only. An examination of the concordances between these sources, some of which are introduced here for the first time, and the pocket sketchbooks containing material for the sonata makes it possible to place the loose desk leaves in a tentative order, and thus lays the foundations for a future study of the genesis of the sonata. The present study also uses the pocket sketchbooks to identify previously unsuspected desk sketches for the sonata, and traces the persistence in these of early plans for the tonal structure of the work.
Title: Approaching the Sketches for Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata
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Contrary to his usual procedure, Beethoven seems to have composed the "Hammerklavier" Sonata without the aid of a desk (or standard-format) sketchbook: the surviving desk sketches for the sonata are to be found on a number of loose leaves and bifolia only.
An examination of the concordances between these sources, some of which are introduced here for the first time, and the pocket sketchbooks containing material for the sonata makes it possible to place the loose desk leaves in a tentative order, and thus lays the foundations for a future study of the genesis of the sonata.
The present study also uses the pocket sketchbooks to identify previously unsuspected desk sketches for the sonata, and traces the persistence in these of early plans for the tonal structure of the work.
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