Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven Spring Sonata (Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24)
Beethoven Spring Sonata (Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24) | The Dialogue of Two Instruments Blossoming Within Classical Form

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Beethoven Spring Sonata (Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24)

1. From Grand Orchestral Sound to Chamber Music: A Shift in Musical Perspective Recent explorations of the orchestration of Bruckner, Mahler, and Richard Strauss examined the massive sonic structures created by clustered brass sonorities. After stepping away for a moment from the vast sonic waves formed by countless instruments intertwining, we now turn our attention … Read more

Classical Music String Quartet
Western Music History ⑤ Classical Music (1750–1820) | Balance, Clarity, and the Logic of Form

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Classical Music String Quartet

From the mid-18th to the early 19th century, the Classical period emerged as the era in which the aesthetics of balance, clarity and structural proportion became most fully realized in Western classical music. With the spread of Enlightenment thought and the rise of the bourgeois class, music expanded beyond courts and churches into public concert … Read more

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