Thursday, May 26, 2011

Influence of Mozart's compositions on Beethoven

That Mozart's work continued to influence Beethoven is an uncontroversial claim. To give one example, the role played by Mozart's 40th Symphony in the composition of Beethoven's Fifth can be documented from Beethoven's sketchbooks, where Beethoven copied out a sequence from Mozart's work that he adapted into his own symphony; see Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven). It is also believed that some of Beethoven's works have direct models in comparable works by Mozart; for example Charles Rosen sees Mozart's C minor piano concerto K. 491 as a model for Beethoven's Third Concerto in the same key[7], the Quintet for Piano and Winds K. 452 for Beethoven's comparable work Op. 16,[8] and the A major String Quartet K. 464 for Beethoven's A major quartet Op. 18 No. 5.[8] Robert Marshall sees Mozart's C minor piano sonata Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457 as the model for Beethoven's Pathétique sonata Op. 13, in the same key.[9]

Beethoven also wrote cadenzas (WoO 58) to the first and third movements of Mozart's D minor piano concerto, K. 466, as well as four sets of variations on Mozart's themes:

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