Le Sonate per Pianoforte di Beethoven

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas are at a fundamental turning point, a turning point that, as in a feedback phenomenon, was provoked by themselves. The first part of this book outlines an "ecology" of the piano sonata, trying to get closer to the way Beethoven and his contemporaries thought and lived this musical genre. The second part is an introduction to the study of form theory that was born around Beethoven's Sonatas, seen both in historical sources and in recent theories on classical form.

The third part delves into aspects related to their meaning such as hermeneutic approach, mouse theory, and aspects of historically informed executive practice. This book makes available to musicians and music students, as well as to listeners and concert-goers who want a conscious and up-to-date listening, a synthesis of decades of musicological research, allowing the reader to obtain his own analytical and interpretative path in this corpus so impressive that it has changed the history of music forever.