The typical piano of 1790s, say, 3, in Vienna was a fairly
light instrument, and it was very well suited to the kind of pianism that were
most conventional in Vienna at that time.
Beethoven changed the whole style of playing. He wanted
bigger pianos, he wanted louder pianos, and we know that he broke strings, he
smashed hammers, he also wrote music that implied that the piano range was too
small, I mean you, you keep going to the last note of the piano and implying
that the musics really could go higher but you can't. That's something that
Mozart rarely did only on rare occasions that Beethoven does fairly constantly.
Haydn's influence on Beethoven came from his music, not
his role as tutor. Beethoven once claimed he'd learned nothing from the
lessons.
What is different in Beethoven is the emotional
seriousness, the feeling, that one has at his music is somehow deeply moral,
and there is no question about the amount of resentment that Beethoven inspired
in his audiences when he first appeared largely because of the way he made the
listener concentrate on the. . the motivic work in the piece, the way he would
take one single motif and then you had to realize the way this motif appeared
in different forms throughout the work.
People didn't like to be forced to listen to music with
that intension. On several occasions, Beethoven rebelled when the audience
treated his music as mere background entertainment.
Beethoven's rebelliousness surfaces
into sonata Pathetique in C minor, a work which seemed to be a subversive
composition. One of the influences on him was the great poet, dramatist and
philosopher Friedrich Schiller. Schiller described tragic art as having to do
with not simply the depiction of human suffering, but the attempt to resist
succumbing to suffering, in other words, resisting an attitude of resignation
and this approach I think is reflected even at the very beginning of a piece
like the sonata Pathetique of 13, we have this laden chords in the low
register, stressing complex, dissonant sounds like the one I'm playing here. We
hear in the main fast section of the piece as a gesture of resistance to this
suffering.
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