HE CAN DO:
Soothing Chamber Music
Quintet in E flat major for 3 horns, oboe and bassoon / second movement
Absurd and Zen-like! (the Diabelli variations are in the “Piano freaks only” section)
In the second half, there is a remarkable pianissimo passage where the treble holds a chord for four full bars while the bass repeats a little three-note figure over and over, eight times, after which the melody proceeds as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
As if nothing out of the ordinary had happened! I love it.
Diabelli variation 3
Can Do: “Spooky”
The Ghost Trio was so named by Czerny because the second movement reminded him of Hamlet’s Ghost in Shakespeare. In fact, Beethoven’s notes reveal that he was working on an idea for an opera based on Macbeth, and interspersed with these notes are the sketch of a slow movement for the Trio.
Piano trio 5 in d major second movement
Fun, humorous, “cheeky” ala Mozart
Piano sonata 15 third movement
Simple/Profound
These two pieces are examples of the “simplest” pieces of music being the most difficult to play properly! He “casts a spell” with the most basic melody, and I think epitomizes claims to his being “The Greatest”
Fur Elise
Moonlight Sonata