Beethoven

In 1820 a publisher in Berlin, Adolf Martin Schlesinger concluded an agreement with Beethoven on composing three piano sonatas.

Beethoven could finish the Sonata in E major dedicated to Euphrosine Kunigunde Brentano within a relatively short time but then he often fell ill or was spending his time with the composition of Missa solemnis. In March 1821 he wrote a letter to Schlesinger asking for some further patience and promised to send the remaining two pieces soon; but, in fact, he had not even begun to work on them. Exactly one year later the publisher received the Sonatas in A flat major and in C minor as well; after that Beethoven stopped composing sonatas, that chapter was closed. On April 30th Balázs Fülei is going to play the last three Beethoven sonatas during his solo recital in the Hungarian Embassy in Washington; then, two days later on May 2nd, pieces by Liszt and Bartók will be on his programme during the gala evening of the Charlotte White Foundation in New York. 

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