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The Violin Music Of Beethoven, 1902
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1dominant of the original key. Yet everything appears to come about in the most natural manner, so that nothing unusual is felt. Indeed, it seems as is so frequently the case with Beethoven's experiments in design, as if it could not be otherwise. But, remembering the period at which this work was written, it must have appeared very novel to his most conservative contemporaries. Many of them shook their heads and expressed grave misgivings just as their successors have been doing in our time with regard to Wagner.
3Here is a melodious unisional passage from the first movement, which to harmonise fully would be to spoil:—
5Ex. 5.
7The piano part—both hands in the bass clef—doubles the violin part in octaves; it is therefore unnecessary to give it.
9The second movement, the "Andante più tosto Allegretto" in A minor, opens with a plaintive and eminently vocal theme; the first eight bars for the piano being immediately taken up and repeated by the violin as follows:
11Ex. 6.
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