Haydn, Franz Joseph : Sonate für Klavier Nr.58 Mov.1 Andante con espressione
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Genre:sonata
Total Playing Time:7 min 30 sec
Copyright:Public Domain
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Author : Ooi, Kazurou
Last Updated: April 3, 2025
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Author : Ooi, Kazurou
The first movement, clearly conceived for keyboard instruments, incorporates numerous virtuosic passages made possible by the pianoforte. Firstly, it is imperative to maintain a consistent tempo throughout, ensuring that the tempo does not decelerate in passages with a high density of notes, by continuously counting in 3/4 time. Furthermore, distinct dynamic contrasts are highly desirable. A key element of this first movement is the effective presentation of the contrast between alternating forte and piano sections.
Regarding the first measure, the author observes a dotted rhythm on the first beat. This rhythm, a dotted eighth note followed by a sixteenth note, is accompanied by an ornament. Performers are encouraged to first play this passage without the ornament, focusing solely on the main notes. The same applies to measure 23. While this approach naturally reveals the underlying dotted rhythm, some performance practices allow the dotted rhythm to be obscured when the ornament is introduced. Playing the ornament at the speed of a thirty-second note is acceptable. However, the fourth note is a main note, which is a sixteenth note. Nevertheless, there exists a performance practice where all three ornamental notes and the single sixteenth note are executed at the speed of a thirty-second note. While this interpretation may be subject to debate, the author's view is that the ornament is introduced within the dotted rhythm (as indicated in the score). Therefore, I would argue that the sixteenth note alone should be differentiated from the thirty-second note rhythm of the other ornamental notes, sustained for its full sixteenth-note duration before proceeding to the second beat. What are your thoughts on this approach?
Author : Saitoh, Noriko
Last Updated: February 9, 2020
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Author : Saitoh, Noriko
The first movement, in C major, is an Andante con espressione in 3/4 time. This movement is not written in sonata form but in a form closer to variations, though secondary phrases are occasionally inserted. Its underlying theme is very simple, but it is diversely ornamented and varied, bringing a calm elegance to the movement. It is primarily based on the technique of contrasting major and minor keys through modulation, and in that respect, it resembles Haydn's Variations in F minor.
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