Beethoven the Musical Wordsmith

What’s this program about?
Beethoven sliced and diced his themes, using musical rhetoric that rebelled against the natural melodic style of Mozart and that charted a path into 19th-century Romanticism. Professor Carol uses the Piano Sonata in E-Flat, Op. 31, to show how he did it.

Works Discussed: Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E-Flat, Op. 31