Beethoven composed five sonatas and three variations for cello and piano in his lifetime. His five cello sonatas (including two in his early, one in the middle and two in the late period), a series of very interesting compositions, showed different styles of different time.
These two ¡§Cello Sonatas, Opus 102¡¨ are Beethoven¡¦s last composition for cello. They are marked the beginning of Beethoven¡¦s late composition style, as well as the most important compositions in the year of 1815. Hence we can say that those two pieces have attained considerable importance: not only in the change of style, but also in the innovation of his composing skills. Other than that, in these two ¡§Cello Sonata, Opus 102¡¨, the way of his composing for cello idioms heavily has influenced the six string quartets he composed later.
This paper is mainly based on those two ¡§Cello Sonatas, Opus 102¡¨ in Beethoven late career. It discusses the composing background of those two pieces, the techniques in which they were written, and the characters of its music. In addition, the paper would initially mention the improvement of string instruments and the progresses of performing techniques in the 18th Century, and how the cellists around Beethoven influenced his compositions. Further, we can even find, by his late two cello sonatas and chamber music, how Beethoven has improved the conventional role of cello.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0617103-142038 |
| Date | 17 June 2003 |
| Creators | Wu, Hsin-Yi |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0617103-142038 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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