My answer containing the title page of the Sonata taken from my authentic first print collection has been held by the list-moderator as it is a bit big, but will be on the list soon, surely.
So I repeat the text here. The picture will come later: The Sonata op.17 in F is for written for Forte-Piano avec un Cor ou Violoncelle, see the title page of my copy of the first edition. Wolfgang Sawallisch, with whom I played the sonata several times, doubted Beethovens authorship of the horn part. He meant that the piano part be typical for the young Beethoven, but the horn be composed or at least demonstrated to Beethoven by Giovanni Punto, and Beethoven wrote it down, a usual procedure during their time. Anyway, the piano part is more important (and more difficult) than the horn part. But we all are very lucky, Beethoven wrote it for Punto & even together with Punto to our benefit. If you all would put a bit of "early romanticism" into it, it would sound less steril as we can hear it too often. ###################################################################################### Am 13.03.2011 um 13:40 schrieb Bill Gross: > I had always assumed that this work was for solo horn with piano > accompaniment. I was listening to it yesterday and recalled what Hans has > said about the Mozart work for string and horn, the horn was part of the > ensemble. > > Is that the case the Beethoven that it is a work as much for piano as it is > for horn? > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
