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Hey, guys. I have a question regarding the Allegro di molt e con brio section of Beethoven's 8th piano sonata. I have reviewed various transcriptions of the same sonata, and in some editions, measures 12 and 20 have a Sfortzando on the E natural - C, and some don't. I'm wondering if there's an officially accepted version of the Sonatas, and if so, what it says to do.
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Your best bet is to assume that the sf is for real. There are varying degrees in which those chords might be "sforzando'd" but I don't think I've ever heard any high-level performance that didn't "sforzando" them, and when I played it, I sure sforzando'd them (moderately).
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Cooper doesn't have them, and it is the most reliable edition.
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Golly, maybe I better delete my post....
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Golly, maybe I better delete my post.... Nah, it's Beethoven. Bang away!
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Golly, maybe I better delete my post.... Nah, it's Beethoven. Bang away! Old joke (don't remember from where -- probably the National Lampoon): If it's too soft, it's Schubert. If it's too loud, it's Wagner. If it's alternately too soft and too loud, it's Beethoven.
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My old Schirmer edition has those sforzandos in the recapitulation only - with a pompous editorial footnote (von Bulow & Lebert I think) pointing them out. I always refer back to the first editions and/or autographs when studying Beethoven sonatas, most of which are available on IMSLP. Just had a quick look at the first edition of the Pathetique and it's the same as my edition - the sforzando you mention is NOT in the exposition, but IS in the recapitulation.
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Hey, guys. I have a question regarding the Allegro di molt e con brio section of Beethoven's 8th piano sonata. I have reviewed various transcriptions of the same sonata, and in some editions, measures 12 and 20 have a Sfortzando on the E natural - C, and some don't. I'm wondering if there's an officially accepted version of the Sonatas, and if so, what it says to do. [...] In my edition (Schnabel) which is very heavily edited, there are sfz markings in several places throughout this movement, so my edition can't have an authority on the question. However, in measure 12 I see no E/C nor do I in measure 20. In measure 11, there is an E-flat/C on the first beat followed by an E-natural/C on the following half-beat, where Schnabel puts a wedge (under the E-natural/C). I can find nothing close to this notation, however, around measure 20. Regards,
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In my Peters edition it is an editorial suggestion [square bracket.]
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....However, in measure 12 I see no E/C nor do I in measure 20. In measure 11, there is an E-flat/C on the first beat followed by an E-natural/C on the following half-beat, where Schnabel puts a wedge (under the E-natural/C). I can find nothing close to this notation, however, around measure 20. The measure numbers confused me too, so I mostly ignored them and just tried to figure out what he meant -- and it seems he's sort of counting from the beginning of the whole movement. He means m. 3 and m. 11 of the Allegro.
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Cooper doesn't have them, and it is the most reliable edition. Debatable.
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Cooper doesn't have them, and it is the most reliable edition. Debatable. Good -- glad I didn't really delete my post. HOWEVER.... In such a situation, I would tend to believe that the absence of the indication is more authentic, because I think editors would be far less inclined to remove an indication of the composer's than to add one of their own. I'd love to have been right but I have a feeling that Cooper has it right, at least on this. Even though I never heard of that edition before and have no idea what it is.
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It has actually been mentioned several times here at PW, particularly by stores.... Oh OK -- no wonder I never heard of it!
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From the article, here's Barry Cooper on including additional early sonatas in his edition: “I can find no reason why they shouldn’t be counted... if they lack something in quality, you could say the same of some of the Opus 49 Sonatas, and you surely wouldn’t exclude those from the canon." Yes I would! Let's start a petition to remove op.49/2 from the canon! There should only be 31 sonatas. (Op.49/1, you can stay.) -J
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Yes I would! Let's start a petition to remove op.49/2 from the canon! There should only be 31 sonatas. (Op.49/1, you can stay.)
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Personally, I believe we should follow Beethoven's wishes and remove both Op.49 Sonatas (which are really juvenile Sonatinas) from the canon - they were published against his wishes. There is already one integral recording of all thirty Beethoven's Piano Sonatas from which the Op.49 were expunged.......
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But in that case I would suggest adding Mozart's C minor sonata and Haydn's E-flat (Hob. 52).
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But in that case I would suggest adding Mozart's C minor sonata and Haydn's E-flat (Hob. 52). They are certainly more Beethovenian than Beethoven's Op.49....
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....However, in measure 12 I see no E/C nor do I in measure 20. In measure 11, there is an E-flat/C on the first beat followed by an E-natural/C on the following half-beat, where Schnabel puts a wedge (under the E-natural/C). I can find nothing close to this notation, however, around measure 20. The measure numbers confused me too, so I mostly ignored them and just tried to figure out what he meant -- and it seems he's sort of counting from the beginning of the whole movement. He means m. 3 and m. 11 of the Allegro. OK; I'll buy that, which is logical since we usually start counting from the beginning of a movement. Except that it now makes the measures in question 13 and 21, at least in my Schnabel. My above remark pertains: Schnabel has a wedge on the E-natural/C both times, but no sfz, although there are other sfz's. Regards,
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....Except that it now makes the measures in question 13 and 21, at least in my Schnabel.... Right -- that's why I said "sort of" when I said he seemed to be counting from the beginning. I tried to clarify it by giving the measure counts from the start of the Allegro, because that's something everyone can count pretty easily, including if their scores don't have measure numbers, which most don't.
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