Here's Beethoven working on the first movement in 1801.
It's a pretty clean score by Beethoven standards.
But compositionally or creatively, it may be that in some ways,
this is not all that difficult a piece.
It's more like a song as opposed, say, to dense counterpoint.
More like a song, a song without words.
So this is the slide of the autographed of one page of the sketch and
you can see we're about on into first ten or so
bars of the first movement here.
And here is the title page for
the sonata when it was ultimately published the next year.
As you can see at the top of this slide,
we have the title there [FOREIGN].
Well that's interesting.
So they were still selling and people were still playing the harpsichord.
In a mode of a fantasy for the harpsichord or the piano forte.
So people had started access to harpsichords in Beethoven's day.
What else it say here?
[FOREIGN].
Well that's the person whom,
the young lady to whom this sonata was piano sonata was dedicated.
It was the daughter of one of his doctors.
Da, or by, Luigi Van Beethoven.
Luigi Van Beethoven, Italian is still the dominate language, so
this is all published in Italian.