Many years after the death of Beethoven (1827), the municipal authorities of Vienna decided to demolish an old theater where the maestro had played the piano. It is said that at the end of the last performance, the Viennese remained standing for a while, crying, excited.
Vienna had declared him an adopted son in 1815, but around 1880, his music was somewhat extreme, or too unique for the taste of the Viennese of the time. Beethoven, on the other hand, did not have a positive impression of the Viennese, at least that was the case during the first years after having settled in the capital of the empire, in 1793. Thus, he even wrote, for example:
"These Viennese are worthless, from the emperor to the last shoeshine boy, how can one become part of this country, the Viennese are people without heart, there is not a single man honoured in the general decline of Austria, only particular circumstances hold me here, where everything is dirty and ruined, they are all thieves, from the highest to the lowest of the social scale ... "
On another occasion, he expressed his disappointment with the liberal groups that greeted with great enthusiasm the French Revolution at a time when the European courts watch in horror the development of events in revolutionary France:
"these people only think about laughing, drinking and dancing ... while they have beer and sausages, there will be no revolution ..."In apparent contradiction to this thought, in addition to the group of his students highly well chosen from among the most select and well-to-do of Viennese society, Beethoven had a small but conspicuous circle of high-line friendships. Between the years 1797-1803, among them was a senior officer of the Russian Imperial Service in Vienna, to whose wife, Anne Margaret von Browne, the maestro dedicated the three sonatas of Opus 10, composed around 1798.
Sonata No. 7, Op. 10 No. 3 Is the most extensive of the trio. It lasts around 24 minutes and is the only one written in four movements:
00:00 Presto
05:20 Largo e mesto (maybe one of Beethoven's most beautiful slow movements)
15:29 Menuetto: Allegro
18:04 Rondo: Allegro
The rendition is by the American pianist Eric Zuber.
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