ExclusiveBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21, Op. 53 in C Major Waldstein - I. 貝多芬：鋼琴奏鳴曲第21號，作品53，C大調《瓦爾德斯坦》第一樂章

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21, Op. 53 in C Major Waldstein - I. Allegro Con Brio. This beautiful piece was played by Paul Pitman. It has Creative Commons license (PDM 1.0 DEED, Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

According to the Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon. An encyclopaedia of the entire musical sciences. For the educated of all classes", the piano was Beethoven's favourite instrument: "It is suitable for bringing out the individual and yet profound expression. ... The outward result is a hitherto unimagined development of the technique of piano playing in all directions, which went hand in hand with the increased importance of the composers. Whereas the lyrical, songful manner had previously been dominant on the piano, Beethoven first localised the dramatic style to it, which brought with it a richness of sound, playing and figures that had not yet existed. The resulting increase in demands on the power and expressiveness of both the instrument and the player had to give rise to a completely new musical epoch."

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53, known as the Waldstein, is one of the three most important sonatas of his middle period (the other two being the Appassionata, Op. 57, and Les Adieux, Op. 81a). Completed in the summer of 1804 and dwarfing Beethoven's previous piano sonatas in scope, the Waldstein is a key early work of Beethoven's 'heroic' decade (1803-1812) and set a standard for piano composition in the grand manner.

The sonata's name derives from Beethoven's dedication to his close friend and patron, Count Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel von Waldstein, a member of the Bohemian noble Waldstein (Valdštejn) family. It is the only work Beethoven dedicated to him[1] and is also known as L'Aurora (The Dawn) in Italian, because of the sonority of the opening chords of the third movement, which are said to evoke the image of daybreak.

It is considered one of Beethoven's greatest and most technically demanding piano sonatas. The first part of the rondo requires simultaneous pedal trills, high melody and rapid left-hand runs, and the coda features glissando octaves written in dialogue between the hands.

The video was filmed by Christian Schlegel at the lake of Thun and edited by Wenjing Ma.

【古典音樂小站】貝多芬：鋼琴奏鳴曲第21號，作品53，C大調“華爾德斯坦” - 第一樂章 快板與活力。這首美妙的樂曲由保羅·皮特曼演奏。它擁有創用CC授權（公共領域標誌 1.0 通用 PDM 1.0 DEED），並通過www.musopen.org提供。

根據《音樂會話詞典》（Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon），一部涵蓋全部音樂科學的百科全書，為各階層的教育者所用，鋼琴是貝多芬最喜愛的樂器：“它適合表現個性化而深刻的表達……外在結果是一種前所未有的鋼琴演奏技術在各個方向的發展，這與作曲家重要性的增加齊頭並進。而在此之前，抒情、歌唱式的風格在鋼琴上一直佔主導地位，貝多芬首次將戲劇風格定位於此，這帶來了一種聲音、演奏和圖案的豐富性，這是之前所不存在的。對樂器和演奏者的力量與表現力要求的增加，必然引發一個全新的音樂時代的誕生。”

貝多芬的C大調第21號鋼琴奏鳴曲，作品53，被稱為“瓦爾德斯坦”，是他中期三大重要奏鳴曲之一（另外兩首是《熱情》，作品57，和《告別》，作品81a）。該奏鳴曲於1804年夏天完成，其範圍超越了貝多芬之前的所有鋼琴奏鳴曲，是貝多芬“英雄”十年（1803-1812）早期的關鍵作品，並為宏偉風格的鋼琴作曲樹立了標準。

這部奏鳴曲的名稱源於貝多芬對他的密友和贊助人，波希米亞貴族瓦爾德斯坦（Waldstein，Valdštejn）家族成員，費迪南德·恩斯特·加布里埃爾·馮·瓦爾德斯坦伯爵的獻辭。這是貝多芬唯一獻給他的作品[1]，並且因為第三樂章開頭和弦的音色，被認為喚起了黎明的形象，因此在意大利被稱為“黎明”（L'Aurora）。

它被認為是貝多芬最偉大和技術要求最高的鋼琴奏鳴曲之一。迴旋曲的第一部分要求踏板顫音、高旋律和快速左手奔跑同時進行，而尾聲則以雙手對話的形式呈現滑音八度音。

該視頻由克里斯蒂安·施萊格爾（Christian Schlegel）在圖恩湖拍攝，由馬文璟編輯。





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