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The Violin Music Of Beethoven, 1902
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1in the key of D, and then in G, like a mysterious echo of the ff close in A before alluded to; then new subject matter follows in three-part counterpoint, and fresh developments, including a passage wherein the key of D is established; all this before the real development or "free fantasia" section is reached. We have, it is true, the orthodox close in the dominant and repeat of the whole of the first section, yet a careful study of this first movement will show how far in advance of all other composers Beethoven had already gone in this Op. 30. I cannot call to mind any "first movement" of the Mozartean period in which the composer had given us members of his first subject immediately after the presentation of the first portion of his second subject, the secondary group of themes being immediately resumed. Yet everything follows in the most natural and convincing manner, and "variety in unity" was never better shown than here, so that the satisfactory result obtained justifies, as usual, Beethoven's departure from the ordinary treatment of the sonata form. The real development section contains only twenty-three bars; shakes of half a bar duration being tossed from one instrument to the other against a semiquaver accompaniment in the piano. Then in the key of C sharp minor the first subject rolls mysteriously in the depths, and is lightly imitated by the violin above the staff, modulating through B minor and A minor so as to enter with an exact repetition of the opening bars as already shown in Example 21. The after portion follows orthodox procedure, the dominant portion of the first section is duly transposed into the tonic key, with only four bars added by way of coda.
3The Tempo di Minuetto is an exquisite movement. What deep feeling Beethoven is able to express through the medium of this old dance form! Observe the additional indication "ma molto moderato e grazioso." It is the minuet idealised. Surely the very dancers must have paused to listen if such lovely melodies were ever provided for them, unless their brains were entirely located in their heels! The first eight bar section—too long to
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