Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 1 in
D major is a violin
sonata
Sonata (; Italian: , pl. ''sonate''; from Latin and Italian: ''sonare'' rchaic Italian; replaced in the modern language by ''suonare'' "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ''played'' as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian ''cant ...
from his
Op. 12 set, along with his
Violin Sonata No. 2 and
Violin Sonata No. 3. It was written in
1798
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and dedicated to
Antonio Salieri. Being an early work written around the period when Beethoven studied with Haydn, the sonata is for the most part written in a classical style much like that of
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his ra ...
or
Haydn.
It has three
movements:
#''Allegro con brio''
#''Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto''
#''Rondo: Allegro''
A typical performance lasts approximately 20 minutes.
Recordings
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Yehudi Menuhin (violin),
Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
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Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman ( he, יצחק פרלמן; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist widely considered one of the greatest violinists in the world. Perlman has performed worldwide and throughout the United States, in venues that hav ...
(violin),
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
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Kristóf Baráti (violin),
Kiára Würtz (piano)
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Leonidas Kavakos
Leonidas Kavakos ( el, Λεωνίδας Καβάκος; born 30 October 1967) is a Greek violinist and conductor. As a violinist, he has won prizes at several international violin competitions, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and In ...
(violin),
Enrico Pace (piano)
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Pamela Frank (violin),
Claude Frank (piano)
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David Oistrakh (violin),
Lev Oborin (piano)
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Jascha Heifetz (violin),
Emmanuel Bay (piano)
Media
References
External links
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Performance of Violin Sonata No. 1by
Corey Cerovsek (violin) and Paavali Jumppanen (piano) from the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in
MP3 format
List of works by Beethovenwith dates, keys and internal movement keys including for example that for opus 12/2.
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Violin Sonata 01
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