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Scan 47
The Violin Music Of Beethoven, 1902
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1Ex. 24 Presto
2sf p
4In exquisite contrast to the stormy, impetuous principal subject is the tranquil cantabile second theme in E major beginning:—
6Ex. 25
7p dolce
9Not for long, however, do we remain thus lulled to repose, the billows rise again and bear us irresistibly onward. In the development section great use is made of the first two notes of the presto, as if the subject, as originally presented to us, were striving to enter on different degrees of the scale, and in various remote keys. The whole development portion is incomparably fine; Beethoven must have conceived it in a perfect fury of inspiration. Woe be to the unlucky intruder who interrupted when this spell was on him! Long holding notes with pauses over them now and again, arrest this impetuous utterance with the sense of a sudden shock, only, however, to let it loose again with renewed energy. The exquisite Andante which follows, laps us in dreams
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