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The Violin Music Of Beethoven, 1902
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1Ex. 13.
3The development section appears to us curiously uninteresting for so great a master, and we are glad to get back to the beautiful opening theme, the return being effected through a shake on A and G sharp of several bars duration. In the coda, this theme appears with charming effect in the bass, echoed in alternate bars by the violin in the treble, against a triplet figure. In the final bars, the first four semiquavers of the theme become a mere repeated turn followed by a scale passage in unison for both the instruments, bringing the movement to a perfectly simple conclusion without fuss or demonstration of any kind. An enthusiastic but somewhat rhapsodical writer once spoke of the imitative passage in the coda as the "sea echoing the stars," but as the echo comes first the simile appears rather curious! However, Beethoven, in his Pastoral Symphony, gives us the lightning after the thunder, so our enthusiast was not without a precedent for the reversal!
5The piano begins the theme of the adagio, which has a passage of truly noble feeling in the middle of the movement which we really must quote:—
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