Beethoven Pathetique Essay

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There is a total of 32 sonata that Beethoven composed in his life. Beethoven’s sonata in C minor, Op. 13 is known as “Pathetique”. It was composed when he was 27 (1798), the age that Beethoven started to discover the problem of deafness. This Sonata was aimed to be presented to his friend, Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, and the title was not given by Beethoven himself.

Sonata No. 8 consists a total of three movements. The first movement starts with a slow introduction, with a solemn and dignified feeling. But soon changes to a quick and quite vigorous tempo and atmosphere. In the recapitulation, recapping the themes of the exposition in C minor, the tonic key. The first movement ends dramatically.

The second movement is in slow, just like in

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