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Beethoven, Ludwig van : Sonate für Klavier Nr.11  4.Satz Rondo-Allegrretto

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Music ID : 30727
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:sonata
Total Playing Time:5 min 30 sec
Copyright:Public Domain

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Author : Okada, Akihiro

Last Updated: February 16, 2019
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

(Fourth Movement) B-flat major, 2/4 time, Rondo

The light and agile rondo theme constantly maintains the dominant (F) in the inner voice. After a transitional passage of arpeggios, a syncopated theme in octaves appears in B-flat major (m. 25~). Following a transitional idea of arpeggios, a motif from the rondo theme is repeated, and the rondo theme returns (m. 50~).

The section that follows, which in rondo form typically introduces a new theme, is here dedicated to the development and elaboration of the material (m. 68~). Even in the recapitulation of the rondo theme (m. 120~), considerable variation techniques are incorporated, and after the recapitulation of the dominant theme, the rondo theme appears once more, concluding the movement with a coda that further develops the motifs.

Writer: Okada, Akihiro