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![]() One aspect of this novelty is tempo and the flow of ideas we already had something new in the pathetique sonata, long and slow introduction. Let's focus especially closely on the first movement Beethoven claimed that in his Op 31 Sonatas he was forging a new path in some sense, this movement is going to show us a lot of what this new style is going to be all about. ![]() Schindler says think of Shakespeare's Tempest while this sonata isn't necessarily program music in the sense of following the plot lines of an exact story, it certainly shows that Beethoven was influenced by the theater, the sense of drama and acute characterization in this piece is especially vivid. The common name for this D minor sonata Op 31 No 2 is the Tempest this nickname comes from a comment ascribed to Beethoven by his associate Anton Schindler.
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