Violin & piano
SKU:
HH.HH423-FSP
Composed
by Anton Eberl. Edited by
Martin Harlow. Violin &
Piano. Full score and
parts. Duration 20
Minutes. Edition HH Music
Publishers #HH423-FSP.
Published by Edition HH
Music Publishers
(HH.HH423-FSP).
ISBN
9790708146247.
Eber
l's Sonata in D major,
Op. 20, the sixth of
seven sonatas with
violin, was composed
around 1803 and dedicated
to Dorothea Ertmann, the
highly regarded pianist
who many have suggested
as Beethoven's 'Immortal
Beloved', and to whom
that composer dedicated
his Piano Sonata in A
major, Op. 101. Unlike
many of Eberl's lesser
contemporaries, in its
duration, formal and
harmonic novelty, and in
the lively relationship
between the violin and
keyboard, his Op. 20
shares much of the
musical ambition and
quality of Beethoven's
works in this genre. 1803
saw the publication of
Eberl's Op. 20, and
Beethoven's set of three
sonatas with violin, Op.
30, all produced by the
Bureau des Arts et
d'Industrie firm in
Vienna. Beethoven's set
were advertised for sale
in the Wiener Zeitung in
May 1803, days after the
premiere of his Op. 47
sonata with violin (given
by George Bridgetower and
Beethoven, but later
dedicated to Rudolphe
Kreutzer). Eberl's Op. 20
was advertised in the
Wiener Zeitung six weeks
later, in July 1803.