June 12, 2022

THE MUSIC BOX

June 12, 2022

Janneke Hoogland, cello

Lucy Faridany, piano

Jubal Joslyn, Cantor

PRELUDE:
Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69 for Piano and Cello by Ludwig van Beethoven
II. Adagio cantabile
I. Allegro ma non tanto

OFFERTORY:
Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69 for Piano and Cello by Beethoven
III. Scherzo

POSTLUDE:
Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69 for Piano and Cello by Beethoven
IV. Allegro vivace

Sketches for the Op. 69 Cello Sonata appear among those for the Fifth Symphony and the Violin Concerto in material from 1806. The bulk of the composition work on the Sonata took place in 1807, and it was completed in 1808, the year that also saw the completion of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, when the 38-year-old Beethoven having since a long time a from-sensing-his-own-worth stemming, well-deserved ego attained. He was by Haydn, from his brash pupil exasperated, “The Great Mogul” dubbed. Already had Beethoven, a most-prizedfor- his-through-polite-society-shock-waves-sending-by-violent-and-far-flungemotionalism- displaying performer, in the Viennese salon circuit, a star become.

When he died in 1827 he had a merging of wildness and control, such as the world had never seen before or since, accomplished. God be it thanked! The turbulence and anger have by some to irritation a little bit with his bypetrifiedsyntaxtangledconstructions or perhaps by a verb so late in the sentence that one it only over the horizon recover might.

RLA/MCA