Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

Course Description

Overview

Examine 32 piano sonatas with Great Courses favorite Professor Robert Greenberg as he combines music, anecdotes, and humor to highlight classic pieces.

Syllabus

By This Professor
01: Beethoven and the Piano
02: Homage to Mozart
03: The Grand Sonata, Part 1
04: The Grand Sonata, Part 2
05: Meaning and Metaphor
06: The Striking and Subversive, Op. 10 Continued
07: The Pathetique and the Sublime
08: The Opus 14 Sonatas
09: Motives, Bach and a Farewell to the 18th Century
10: A Genre Redefined
11: Sonata quasi una fantasia-The Moonlight
12: Lesser Siblings and a Pastoral Interlude
13: The Tempest
14: A Quartet of Sonatas
15: The Waldstein and the Heroic Style
16: The Appassionata and the Heroic Style
17: They Deserve Better, Part 1
18: They Deserve Better, Part 2
19: The Farewell Sonata
20: Experiments in a Dark Time
21: The Hammerklavier, Part 1
22: The Hammerklavier, Part 2
23: In a World of His Own
24: Reconciliation

Taught by

Robert Greenberg, PhD

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