Beethoven's piano sonatas are possibly the greatest achievement in piano literature, perhaps in all musical literature. It has been said that if the forty-eight preludes and fuges of Bach's "Well-tempered Clavier" were to be considered the "Old Testament" of music, then Beethoven's thirty-two sonatas would have to be the "New Testament."
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| Date | 01 May 1965 |
| Creators | Hammond, Kathryn |
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| Source Sets | Utah State University |
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| Source | All Graduate Theses and Dissertations |
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