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An Encyclopedia of the Violin, 1925
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1Now it is worth mentioning that though Beethoven often indicated terminations for his trills, on the other hand, he often omitted them. He was so exact in all that he wrote that a splendid example of the clearness of his exposition is to be found in the profound Sonata Op. 30, No. 2 (Sonata VII). In the example which follows:
3Sonata No. 7 – Beethoven
5the fragment might easily have been provided with indications for its playing in the following manner:
7Sonata No. 7 – Beethoven
9as, in fact, Joachim has provided in his edition (Peters). In the Allegro Vivace of Sonata Op. 30, No. 2, the end of the trill is written out:
11Sonata No. 7 – Beethoven
13Further on, however, no termination is indicated:
15Sonata No. 7 – Beethoven
17The most complicated trills to play are the short, broken or brief trills. An example in point which might be cited is the trill in the Twenty-second Concerto of Viotti, which always fills violinists with anxiety:
19Concerto No. 22 – Viotti
21Several examples which shed much light on the manner in which the trill should be analyzed and understood in the music of the master of Bonn might be drawn from the Beethoven Violin Concerto.
23In the Larghetto we find:
25Larghetto (Concerto) Beethoven
27Here Joachim indicates a termination:
29Larghetto (Concerto) Beethoven
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