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The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title _Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies_ and stated in a short preface that it made “no claim to originality and no secret of its indebtedness to the masterly treatises on the same subject.” I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages o...
The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title _Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies_ and stated in a short preface that it made “no claim to originality and no secret o...
2. Part 2Nevertheless, the tremendous series of thirty-two sonatas, which began, roughly speaking, in 1795 and continued more or less intermittently till 1822, are among his most moving,...
3. Part 3Beethoven himself called the Eighth his “little symphony in F” in contrast to the “great” symphony in A (Seventh). Yet the indifference of the audience at the Redoutensaal annoy...
4. Part 4The fourth work of the opus 18 set, in C minor, is more or less a work distinct from its companions. “A mood of deep seriousness is common to it and the C major Quintet, opus 29...