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Piano Sonata No. 17 - Op. 31, No. 2

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The Tempest - Piano Sonata No. 17 - Op. 31, No. 2

  • The Tempest - 1. Movement - Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2
  • The Tempest - 1. Movement - Sonata No. 17, Op. 31, No. 2 - Arranged for Strings
  • The Tempest - 3. Movement - Sonata No. 17, Op. 31, No. 2 - Arranged for Strings
    • Recorded, produced, and published by: Gregor Quendel
    The arrangement is based on the notes by: Y. Murakami


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The Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2, was composed in 1801–02 by Ludwig van Beethoven. The British music scholar Donald Francis Tovey says in A Companion to Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas:

"With all the tragic power of its first movement the D minor Sonata is, like Prospero, almost as far beyond tragedy as it is beyond mere foul weather. It will do you no harm to think of Miranda at bars 31–38 of the slow movement... but people who want to identify Ariel and Caliban and the castaways, good and villainous, may as well confine their attention to the exploits of Scarlet Pimpernel when the Eroica or the C minor Symphony is being played."

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._17_(Beethoven)

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