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BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonatas Nos. 11 and 29

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Sonata No.11 in B Flat Major, Opus 22

Sonata No.29 in B Flat Major, Opus 106

(Grosse Sonate für das Hammerklavier)

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn in December, 1770, the son of Johann van Beethoven, a singer in the service of the Archbishop of Cologne, and, more important, the grandson of Ludwig van Beethoven, Kapellmeister to the same patron. It was the very distinction and strength of character of the head of the family that lay at the root of Johann van Beethoven's inadequacy as a father and final professional incompetence. The elder Ludwig died in 1773, but was to remain for his grandson a powerful posthumous influence, while Johann slid further into habits of dissipation, with Ludwig, his eldest surviving son, assuming in 1789 the role of head of the family, with responsibility for his two younger brothers.

In Bonn Beethoven received erratic musical training at home, followed by a much more thorough course of study with Christoph Gottlob Neefe, who was appointed court organist in 1781. In 1784 Beathoven entered the paid service of the Archbishop as deputy court organist, employed as a viola-player or as cembalist in the court orchestra, and turning his hand increasingly to composition. A visit to Vienna in 1788 for the purpose of study with Mozart led to nothing, cut short by the illness and subsequent death of his mother, but in 1792, he was to return to the imperial capital, again with his patron's encouragement, to take lessons with Haydn.

Beethoven came to Vienna with the highest recommendations and was quick to establish himself as a pianist and composer. From Haydn he claimed to have learned nothing, but he was to undertake further study with Johann Georg Albrechtsberger in counterpoint and with the court Kapellmeister Antonio Salieri in vocal and dramatic setting. More important he was to attach himself to a series of noble patrons who were to couple generosity with forbearance throughout his life, the latter quality often much needed.

As a young composer in Bonn Beethoven had followed the trends of his time. In Vienna he was increasingly to develop his own unmistakable and original musical idiom, sometimes strange and uncouth by the standards of the older generation, but suggesting completely new worlds to others. It was an apparent stroke of fate that played an essential part in this process. By the turn of the century Beethoven had begun to experience bouts of deafness. It was this inability to hear that inevitably directed his attention to composition rather than performance, as the latter activity became increasingly impossible. Deafness was to isolate him from society and to accentuate still further his personal eccentricities of behaviour, shown in his suspicious ingratitude to those who helped him and his treatment of his nephew Karl and his unfortunate sister-in-law.

In Vienna Beethoven lived through turbulent times. The armies of Napoleon, once admired by Beethoven as an enlightened republican, until he had himself crowned as emperor, were to occupy the imperial capital, and war brought various changes of fortune to the composer's friends and supporters. The last twelve years of his life were spent in the relative political tranquility that followed Napoleon's final defeat, a period in which the freedom of thought that had characterised the reign of Joseph II was replaced by the repression of his successors, anxious to prevent a recurrence of the unfortunate events that had caused such damage in France. Beethoven survived as an all-licensed eccentric, his bellowed political indiscretions tolerated, while others, apparently saner, were subject to the attention of the secret police. He died in March, 1827, his death the occasion for public mourning in Vienna at the passing of a figure whose like the city was not to see again.

The 32 numbered piano sonatas of Beethoven provide a remarkable conspectus of his own style, ranging from the earliest, under the influence of Haydn, to whom they are dedicated, to the last, which explore a new world in their bold complexity.

To those immediately following Beethoven, the sonatas, like the nine symphonies, offered both a challenge, in some ways a guide, and, at the same time, a field for varied speculation in a search for literary sources or parallels.

Sonata No.11 in B Flat Major, Opus 22, was completed in 1800 and published two years later in Leipzig. The work is dedicated to Count Johann Georg von Browne-Camus, an officer of Irish descent in the Russian Imperial Service, a nobleman of considerable wealth, coupled with extravagance. He was particularly generous to Beethoven in the early years of the century, and was described by the latter as the principal Maecenas of his muse.

The sonata brings to an end the second period of Beethoven's creative life, encompassing the first ten years or so in Vienna and composition in a broadly classical style.

The so-called Hammerklavier Sonata,Opus 106, was completed in 1818 and published the following year. The work was dedicated to Beethoven's pupil and patron, Archduke Rudolph, the youngest son of Leopold II, who was created Archbishop of Olmutz and a cardinal in the same year. The Sonata, started in celebration of the Archduke's name-day, is a remarkable work, making very considerable technical demands on the player.

Jeno Jando

Jeno Jando was born at Pecs, in south Hungary, in 1952. He started to learn the piano when he was seven and later studied at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music under Katalin Nemes and Pal Kadosa, becoming assistant to the latter on his graduation in 1974. Jando has won a number of piano competitions in Hungary and abroad, including first prize in the 1973 Hungarian Piano Concours and a first prize in the chamber music category at the Sydney International Piano Competition in 1977. In addition to his many appearances in Hungary, he has played widely abroad in Eastern and Western Europe, in Canada and in Japan.

He is currently engaged in a project to record all of Beethoven's piano solo works for Naxos. Other recordings for the Naxos label include the concertos of Grieg and Schumann as well as Rachmaninov's 2nd Concerto and Paganini Rhapsody.

Disc 1

Piano Sonata No. 11, B flat major, Op. 22

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Composed by: Ludwig van Beethoven
Jeno Jando,
Recording date: 22 August - 4 September 1988
Produced by: Simon, Jenõ

Allero con brio - 07:45
Adagio con molta espressione - 07:47
Menuetto - 03:09
Rondo. Allegretto - 06:18

Piano Sonata No. 29, B flat major, Op. 106

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Composed by: Ludwig van Beethoven
Jeno Jando,
Recording date: 22 August - 4 September 1988
Produced by: Simon, Jenõ

Allegro - 11:19
Scherzo. Assai vivace - Presto - Tempo I - 02:48
Adagio sostenuto. Appassionato e con molto sentimento - 14:10
Largo - Allegro - 02:37
Allegro risoluto. Fuga a tre voci, con alcune licenze - 10:27

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Composer(s)/ Author(s):
Beethoven, Ludwig van

Artist(s):
Jando, Jeno

Label: Naxos Classics
UPC: 730099523424
Item Number: 8550234
Release Date: Jan 1, 2001