Beethoven
Keyboard Sonatas

5 Classes – Trevor Stephenson, instructor
August―October 2022
August 3 & 10, Sept. 14, October 5 & 26
Wednesday evenings 6-7:30 pm

Studio of Trevor Stephenson:
5729 Forsythia Place, Madison WI 53705
Enrollment for the class limited to 20 participants

In-person attendance – $100 for the five-class course
Attendance at individual classes – $25/class
All classes will be filmed and posted online
(24 hours after the class)
All class participants will receive the link to the videos
Virtual attendance–to view the five videos only–$85

To enroll
email trevor@trevorstephenson.com, or phone 608 238-6092

Pianos for the lectures:
18^th-century Stein Fortepiano
19^th-century Bösendorfer Concert Grand

August 3: Op. 2, no. 1 in F minor; Op. 14 no. 2 in G major
August 10: Op 13 in C minor, Pathétique; Op. 27, no. 2 in C-sharp minor “Moonlight”
September 14: Op. 57 in F minor, “Appassionata”
October 5: Op. 110 in A-flat major
October 26: Op. 111 in C minor

• Early years in Bonn—family life, musical training; first trip to Vienna 1787; move to Vienna 1792
• Studies with Haydn; success as a pianist; first publications; pianistic style and powers of improvisation
• Types of instruments Beethoven played; keyboard temperaments and pitch levels
• Onset and progression of his deafness; work habits; friendships
• Structure and rhetorical aim of Op. 2 no. 1, Op. 14 no. 2, Op. 13, Op. 27 no. 2, Op. 57, Op. 110, Op. 111
• Approaches to fingering, articulation, pedaling
• Principles of the Enlightenment and of Romanticism present in the Sonatas
• Publication, performance, and reception history of the Sonatas; suggested reading; discography