Violin Sonata No. 1 - Violin

Misc. Notes, Because it was not available for consultation at the time, the editor of this score did not use Bach's autograph manuscript as a source for the.
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Javascript is required for this feature. Performer Pages Michel Rondeau trumpet. These file s are part of the Werner Icking Music Collection. Performers Masashi Motokado piano. Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe , Band 27 Leipzig: Because it was not available for consultation at the time, the editor of this score did not use Bach's autograph manuscript as a source for the Bach-Gesellschaft edition. In the summer of , Beethoven's physician ordered him to leave Vienna and take rooms in Heiligenstadt, today a friendly suburb at the northern terminus of the city's subway system, but two centuries ago a quiet village with a view of the Danube across the river's rich flood plain.

It was three years earlier, in , that Beethoven first noticed a disturbing ringing and buzzing in his ears, and he sought medical attention for the problem soon thereafter. He tried numerous cures for his malady, as well as for his chronic colic, including oil of almonds, hot and cold baths, soaking in the Danube, pills and herbs. For a short time he even considered the modish treatment of electric shock.

On the advice of his latest doctor, Beethoven left the noisy city for the quiet countryside with the assurance that the lack of stimulation would be beneficial to his hearing and his general health. On October 6, , following several months of wrestling with his diminishing hearing as well as a constant digestive distress and the wreck of a recent affair of the heart - the thought of Beethoven as a husband threatens the moorings of one's presence of mind! But - and this is the miracle - he not only poured his energy into self-pity, he also channeled it into music.

Such a working method generates the main theme of the opening movement of the A major Sonata, in which most of the violin line and both hands of the piano are derived from either the quick turn figure or the flowing quarter-note motive introduced at the outset. The second subject, an arching melody with a trill, provides thematic and tonal contrast while continuing the genial, lyrical nature of the movement.

It ends with the opening gesture in that key, and is a regular four bars, creating a larger period of nine bars. The piano figuration moves to a higher register and low octaves emerge in the bass. The music shifts back to E-flat, but it is the minor version of that key, and full cadences are avoided. The violin figures emerge into a confident melody moving to a half-cadence. The violin melody gains in confidence and is spun out more, reaching high and descending on more forceful syncopated notes.

The low bass piano octaves emerge in full as the upper figuration remains in the middle range. The music remains in E-flat minor. It then works out this gesture as both it and the piano gradually build. The top of the piano line emerges as a countermelody for the first time. Brahms builds tension by delaying the full cadence on E-flat, which does eventually arrive. The new tempo marking indicates a somewhat faster speed, but the marking mezza voce implies that it should still be subdued. The rhythm is the long-short dotted rhythm this time with rests before the short chords associated with the Regenlied.

The chords make a progression in E-flat minor and then repeat it with minimal variation in the upper harmonies, but none in the lower bass octaves. The repetition begins to rapidly build. The second one brings the octaves between the hands closer together, but the notes G-flat and C-flat are the same. A third leap, with the bass again lower, changes C-flat to its equivalent note B, and Brahms changes the key signature from three flats to two sharps. The violin enters after its long rest, playing a passionate fragment above the piano, whose leaps have emerged into full chords in B major.

The violin plays the melody, but the piano accompaniment also shadows some of its outlines in the right hand, playing leaping figures in the dotted rhythm with the left. The volume rapidly increases and the piano speeds up, playing broken octaves in triplets and then plunging downward in a rapid arpeggio. It now sounds martial and defiant.

Sonata for violin & piano No. 1

The piano accompanies the violin with chords, while its left hand loosely imitates the rising dotted-rhythm. The scoring and octave placement is similar. It seems at first that there will be an analogous motion to G major from B minor, but the expected G major on the third leap is thwarted harmonically and diverted instead toward D minor.

The violin, in a low register, also combines these elements in alternation with the piano bass. At the intensification, the violin speeds up even more rapidly than the piano had done and emerges into the plunging arpeggio formerly taken by the piano. The piano seems to begin the martial version of the dotted rhythm again in D minor, and the violin begins to imitate the piano bass in a reversal of 2: This time, however, the imitation remains strict and the dotted rhythm begins to move upward in sequences.

At its peak, the imitation breaks and the violin begins to play leaping octaves. The piano has thick chords over plunging bass octaves. The music moves to a huge arrival on an A-major chord.


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The A-major chord is followed by similar arpeggios on a B-flat major harmony. Against these, in double-stops, the violin begins to hesitantly hint at the main theme of the A section. The fragments of the main theme continue in the violin double stops, but they are then shortened. There is a slowing and a diminishing of volume over the last dissonant arpeggio.

The violin simply holds its last double stop without moving, and there is an extremely intense pause. The violin now plays the main theme in warmly harmonious double stops while the piano provides a new undulating accompaniment in triplet rhythm. The piano bass still plays the wide arpeggios, clashing with the triplets in a two-against-three conflict.

As before, it moves to B-flat. The violin continues its double stops, the piano its decorative accompaniment and clashing two-against-three rhythm. The phrase ends with a descending B-flat piano arpeggio in the triplet rhythm. The difference is in the piano accompaniment, which is still playing the florid triplet motion.

The same low octaves emerge in the bass. As before, the music moves to E-flat minor and to a half-cadence. The violin melody gains confidence and builds, as at 1: New syncopation is introduced in the flowing piano triplet rhythm. The bass octaves are as before. The piano is still playing the triplets in the right hand, at first with irregular groupings that cross bar lines, continuing the syncopated effect from the previous passage.

The countermelody is embedded in the flowing triplets. There is a building, with a delay of the cadence in E-flat, as in the first A section. The low bass octaves remain in pure E-flat major, but the supporting chords introduce the chromatic note D-flat, which creates the necessary tension. The entire passage is very soft, even softer than the beginning of the B section.

It continues constantly in the dotted rhythm, with notes held across bar lines.

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Above this, the right hand plays middle-range chords that do change, but quite slowly. The right-hand chords introduce more notes in addition to the D-flat that give the music an inflection toward the minor key.


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    • Above all of this, the violin surreptitiously enters after its long rest and plays the expressive, winding melody from 2: The violin departs from the melody after two sequential phrases, breaking into arching arpeggios over the piano pedal point and chords. The violin, in double stops, begins a statement of the main theme from the A section in that key. The piano bass moves down and up by half-steps. The right hand begins to respond to the violin, and there is a sudden buildup.

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    The main theme in G-flat breaks and reaches higher. As the buildup reaches its climax, E-flat major brilliantly emerges again on the opening figure of the theme.

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    The violin moves down an octave, and both hands of the piano move up an octave. The arpeggios continue a bit farther than before and reach a quiet, warm cadence. Two sighing reiterations of this cadence, the second with the piano rising, end the movement in a very peaceful manner. The first two bars are directly derived from the minor-key Regenlied melody. The violin plays the melody itself, beginning with the distinctive dotted-rhythm upbeat. The piano plays an accompaniment derived from the song, the skittish upward motion and the winding downward motion.

    The piano bass has isolated dotted-rhythm upbeats, and the left hand once leaps above the steady accompaniment to play them higher. After the second bar, the melody deviates from the song, but retains the same quiet, agitated character. It is extended to five bars by an insertion of a bar with triplets in the violin. The left hand abandons the dotted upbeats for low octaves. The phrase moves through A minor to D minor for a cadence. The piano skips upward in a bridge, moving back to G minor.

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    The left hand is absent here. The last two violin statements of the figures are delayed, and the final one is lengthened, leading into a restatement of the opening. Under this final lengthened violin figure, the piano bass enters with the dotted rhythm. The first phrase begins as before, but it is altered in its second half, where it reaches lower at the end. This places the second phrase at a lower level, and through artful manipulation, it reaches lower still, allowing it to remain in G minor for its cadence.

    It begins higher than before and is interrupted by a smooth violin descent with the piano moving to a downward winding line. The rising figures return, and are again broken by the smooth line. The downward winding piano line moves to the left hand as the key moves to D minor.

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    The theme begins with a sort of anticipation emerging from the previous passage. The longer dotted rhythms and languid line in the violin will become characteristic of the theme. The right hand enters against the continuing left hand figuration. There is a small swelling and receding D minor. The piano has short interjections with low bass notes as an accompaniment, but it does have one trailing imitation of a turning violin figure in the melody.

    The piano plays the tune in octaves with isolated broken octaves in the left hand. The violin also takes the previous piano imitation of the turning figure, still in double stops. The end of the statement is altered to prepare for the next part of the melody, into which the violin leads with a trill.