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The typical piano of 1790s, say, 3 in Vienna was a fairly light instrument and was very well suited to the kind of pianism that very most conventional in Vienna at that time.

Beethoven changes the whole style of plan. He want to bigger pianos want louder pianos and we know that he broke strings when he smack hammers, he also wrote music that implied that the piano range was too small. I mean you keep going to the last note of the piano and implying that the music really could go higher and you can't. That's something Mozart rarely only on rare occasions and that Beethoven does it fairly constantly.

Hyden's influence on Beethoven came from his music not his role of tutor. Beethoven once claimed he learned nothing from the lessons. What is different in Beethoven is the emotional serious. The feeling that the one has that music is somehow deeply moral. 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 motivic work in the piece, the way he could take one single motif and then you had to realize the way this motive appeared in different forms throughout the work.

People didn't like to be forced to listen to music with attention. On several occasions, Beethoven rebelled when the audiences treated his music as mere background entertainment.

Beethoven's rebelliousness surfaces into sonata Pathetic in C minor. A work which seem to be a subversive composition. One of the influences on him was the great poet, dramatist and philosopher Friedrich Schiller. Schiller describe 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 piece like the sonata Pathetic of 13. We have this laden chord in low register, stress in complex, dissonant sounds like the one I'm playing here. We here in the main fast section of the piece as a gesture of resistance to his suffering.