Sonata No. 7 for Piano & Violin in C minor

The Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, the second of his opus 30 set, was composed between 1801 and 1802, published in May 1803, and dedicated to Czar Alexander I of Russia. It has four movements:

1. Allegro con brio
2. Adagio cantabile
3. Scherzo: Allegro
4. Finale: Allegro; Presto

Characteristic of Beethoven, the development section contains a theme not found in the exposition (this happens in earlier compositions such as the fourth violin sonata also)^[1]

The second movement was originally sketched out in G major before taking its current form ^[2].

The autograph to the sonata turned up in a collection built up by H. C. Bodmer in Zurich, discovered in the mid-20th century ^[3].

The work takes approximately 26 minutes to perform.

References

1. ^ Churgin, Bathia (Summer, 1998). "Beethoven and the New Development-Theme in Sonata-Form Movements". The Journal of Musicology (St Joseph, Michigan: Imperial Printing Company) 16 (3): 327–9. doi:10.1525/jm.1998.16.3.03a00030. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0277-9269%28199822%2916%3A3%3C323%3ABATNDI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A. Retrieved 2007-12-25.  As the author notes, the practice of including new material in the central section of a ternary-form (sonata) movement is not a Beethoven innovation- there are examples in and preceding Mozart's music.
2. ^ Sundram, Jason. "Notes on Violin Sonata no. 7, opus 30 no. 2, 1802". http://jsundram.freeshell.org/ProgramNotes/Beethoven_Sonata.html. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 
3. ^ Aber, Adolf (May 1956). "Beethoven's Autographs". Musical Times (The Musical Times, Vol. 97, No. 1359) 97 (1359): 249–251. doi:10.2307/936460. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0027-4666%28195605%2997%3A1359%3C249%3ABA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U. Retrieved 2007-07-23. 

External links

• Violin Sonata No. 7: Free scores at the International Music Score Library Project.
• Recording by Corey Cerovsek, violin and Paavali Jumppanen, piano from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• The Mutopia project has information about the composition Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven) - this is for the Allegro con brio
• The Mutopia project has information about the composition Violin Sonata No. 7 (Beethoven) - this is for the Finale