Date of Award:

5-1965

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Arts (MA)

Department:

Music

Department name when degree awarded

Applied Music

Committee Chair(s)

Irving Wassermann

Committee

Irving Wassermann

Committee

A. L. Dittmer

Committee

Merle E. Puffer

Abstract

Beethoven's piano sonatas are possibly the greatest achievement in piano literature, perhaps in all musical literature. It has been said that if the forty-eight preludes and fuges of Bach's "Well-tempered Clavier" were to be considered the "Old Testament" of music, then Beethoven's thirty-two sonatas would have to be the "New Testament."

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