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i first heard this music many years ago and absolutley loved it so a while back bought myself a cheap digital piano and taught myself to play it note by note via youtube unfortuantly doesnt sound that great (cheap piano) but never the less i play it every night and my kitten likes it
I'm a non-music major writing an analysis of this for a class, and your video was extremely helpful in pointing me to areas on which to focus. Also an unexpected, quasi-ASMR video!
Karl Haas played this adagio as his theme song for his late night radio show "Adventures in Good Music" which I listened to living deep in the quiet countryside near the Mexican border. I tried this out on my digital piano, thought it sounded authentic and memorized it, which led to learning and memorizing the 1st and 3rd movements as well, then onward to the Appassionata, starting out by memorizing the 2nd mvt. again. Beethoven later became my shelter and antidote while at times driving limousines full of rap and hip-hop din for most of ten years. Thank you for presenting this detailed analysis of the Pathetique because it illumines music into which I have invested thousands of hours of my life. At an Emanuel Ax concert including this piece it seemed that many of the people seated in my vicinity also played this immortal part of the classical repertoire.
Henrik, it is a joy to absorb your analysis. Your effortless transitions between perfect execution on the ivories and clear, concise, astute explanations of the sheet music are astounding; your sweet smile shows the personal enjoyment and compels complimentary enjoyment of the listener. Marvelous, thank you!
I spent two years listening to this as the theme song for a classical hour on Air Force Radio Service AFRS when I was stationed in Italy in the late 60s. I never knew what it was from or who wrote it. I finally found it through Billy Joel who used it in one of his songs and I hunted it down finally. I love this piece. It lulls me to rest and takes away all my stress. I just wish it were longer.
I, too, hear Billy singing: "Tomorrow is a long time away, this night can last forever" Doo-wop meets classical :) For more relaxing Beethoven, try his 6th symphony, the "Pastoral". Not gonna lie, I choke up each time the sun comes out.
I just bumped into your channel when I looked up for a Liebestraum no. 3 analysis and wow I'm now binge watching your analysis videos 😂😭 your explanation is so thorough and systematic, very nice teaching style, really shows how good you are in what you do. Thank you so much 😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰💕💕💕💕💕
What a fantastic analysis. So approachable for the novice pianist! I love spending Sunday morning with my coffee watching your videos! Thanks and keep up the good work!
Thank you Henrik. As a wanna-be pianist, who can read and sing, listening to your calming explanation of this movement, my favorite, was just great. I'm jealous of your fine playing of this beautiful piece that it makes me want get to my grand that sits in our house as an ornament and get busy! Loved your video; you make it seem so easy and effortless. Thanks again.
Thank you SO much for helping me to understand this exquisite piece even more. Your very informed comments with gentle and relaxed commentary made it all the more enjoyable! Thank you again. (Loved the emoji's also!)
Was trying to find the right tempo for this sonata. Ive been practicing amd reading the score. My understanding is that this should be slow and loveable, your explanation teaches me well. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I love playing piano, never learn from a teacher, just self learnt. This song is in the album that came along with the digital piano I bought. First part is my favorit though.. I remember when I was little, there was a pop song that has similar melody. Thanks again for your teaching.
Excellent video. Top A1. Just wonder why the staccato's in this piece don't sound like staccato. when all people perform. They are played a lot with pedal and legato, where you cannot really tell if it is staccato, as if we are playing Chopin. I experimented with playing those staccato dry and does give an interesting sound, as advised by my teacher. One idea I think is that the pianos today are too powerful to play this way as it may sound too ruthless and Harsh, but that is my guess.
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Thanks for your excellent analysis of this beautiful piece. Love that A Natural! I’ve loved this piece more than 40 years and in 13 minutes, you showed me why. By the way, I’m a professional musician and recording artist. Is there a way one can study more analysis from you?
Thanks for this video this is great. Does anyone know anything about the two different written versions of this piece? I first learned it years ago on a version where the left hand does most of the work and the right just plays the melody. I subsequently lost the music but recently bought myself an old second hand copy. My current version is just like it appears here, where the right hand is doing the melody plus the chords, with the left just taking care of the bass. I’m wondering what the original written version was? Why are there two different versions? What is the benefit of playing it one way or another? I couldn’t find anything online about this. The Wikipedia page on this piece has the other version I’m talking about en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._8_(Beethoven)
Oh, I see. Different editions put the 16th notes in either the right or left hand - but they are always the same notes. Even when they are written in the left hand staff, you cannot reach all of the with the left hand so then you have to go back and forth which hand to play them. In that case I think it's simpler to keep them in the right hand all the time, but I'm sure it's possible to split it too.
Beautiful, but it's definitely not the original slurs by Beethoven on this featuring score. And the same original phrasing was repeatedly the same every time the theme appears throughout this movement, not by mistake, I think.
Why do I feel like people can play this ‘song’ much more expressive, but it feels more like a flow when people actually plays it. And the rebato is even more confusing.
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You are such a knowledgeable teacher with a very calm and pleasant demeanor. I'm so glad I found your channel! Wish you great success with it.
Thank you, welcome to the channel! :)
Hi Henrik
i first heard this music many years ago and absolutley loved it so a while back bought myself a cheap digital piano and taught myself to play it note by note via youtube unfortuantly doesnt sound that great (cheap piano) but never the less i play it every night and my kitten likes it
I'm sure your kitten loves it :)
If your kitten likes it, that’s all that matters 😂
I played this adagio for years without knowing any of the insights you just taught! Thank you so much.
I'm a non-music major writing an analysis of this for a class, and your video was extremely helpful in pointing me to areas on which to focus. Also an unexpected, quasi-ASMR video!
Glad it was helpful! :)
Karl Haas played this adagio as his theme song for his late night radio show "Adventures in Good Music" which I listened to living deep in the quiet countryside near the Mexican border. I tried this out on my digital piano, thought it sounded authentic and memorized it, which led to learning and memorizing the 1st and 3rd movements as well, then onward to the Appassionata, starting out by memorizing the 2nd mvt. again. Beethoven later became my shelter and antidote while at times driving limousines full of rap and hip-hop din for most of ten years. Thank you for presenting this detailed analysis of the Pathetique because it illumines music into which I have invested thousands of hours of my life. At an Emanuel Ax concert including this piece it seemed that many of the people seated in my vicinity also played this immortal part of the classical repertoire.
I'm practising this piece now, thank you for this video! :)
Thanks, glad you liked it! :)
Thank you so much; Tack så mycket! Wonderful analysis and so beautifully presented
the face you pulled at 4.23 when you hit that altered chord made me loooool. Thanks for the video! Helped alot.
I analyzed this for my first sophomore Music Theory project! It's such a beautiful piece.
Henrik, it is a joy to absorb your analysis. Your effortless transitions between perfect execution on the ivories and clear, concise, astute explanations of the sheet music are astounding; your sweet smile shows the personal enjoyment and compels complimentary enjoyment of the listener. Marvelous, thank you!
Thank you for your very kind words, Marc!
I started learning piano because of this piece of music. Your in depth explanation of the subtleties of this piece are great.
I am practicing this beautiful piece now. Your video is extremely helpful to me. Thank you! Like your analysis as very much as your playing.
I spent two years listening to this as the theme song for a classical hour on Air Force Radio Service AFRS when I was stationed in Italy in the late 60s. I never knew what it was from or who wrote it. I finally found it through Billy Joel who used it in one of his songs and I hunted it down finally. I love this piece. It lulls me to rest and takes away all my stress. I just wish it were longer.
I, too, hear Billy singing: "Tomorrow is a long time away, this night can last forever"
Doo-wop meets classical :)
For more relaxing Beethoven, try his 6th symphony, the "Pastoral". Not gonna lie, I choke up each time the sun comes out.
I just bumped into your channel when I looked up for a Liebestraum no. 3 analysis and wow I'm now binge watching your analysis videos 😂😭 your explanation is so thorough and systematic, very nice teaching style, really shows how good you are in what you do. Thank you so much 😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰💕💕💕💕💕
thank you. i enjoy your playing very much
literal chill. so beautiful played
What a fantastic analysis. So approachable for the novice pianist! I love spending Sunday morning with my coffee watching your videos! Thanks and keep up the good work!
The most charismatic pianist on RUclips. I loved the minute 1:17. I have a simplified version of mvt 2 for lazy students😁. Excellent explanation 👍
I needed these kind of analysis material for selfstudy. I wanted to understand this piece further and this clip is really helpful. Thank you so much!
I love this piece a lot and I love your teaching technique which is so pleasant like the piece itself
Aw thank you :)
Thank you Henrik. As a wanna-be pianist, who can read and sing, listening to your calming explanation of this movement, my favorite, was just great. I'm jealous of your fine playing of this beautiful piece that it makes me want get to my grand that sits in our house as an ornament and get busy! Loved your video; you make it seem so easy and effortless. Thanks again.
Thank you so much Ron!
Perfect tempo for this movement good work!
Thank you :)
Thank you SO much for helping me to understand this exquisite piece even more. Your very informed comments with gentle and relaxed commentary made it all the more enjoyable! Thank you again. (Loved the emoji's also!)
Thanks Mary, it means a lot! :)
Thanks, very nice vídeo👏👏👏
Excellent analysis! Currently learning this piece and your analysis has been useful in learning and appreciating it.
thank you for this video, I am studying this movement and the 3rd movement.
Thanks and good luck with it - great pieces to learn/develop your playing.
Very nice explanation, Henrik! Thanks a lot!
Was trying to find the right tempo for this sonata. Ive been practicing amd reading the score. My understanding is that this should be slow and loveable, your explanation teaches me well. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I love playing piano, never learn from a teacher, just self learnt. This song is in the album that came along with the digital piano I bought. First part is my favorit though.. I remember when I was little, there was a pop song that has similar melody. Thanks again for your teaching.
Yes, I am sometimes confused about how exactly to play it, Beethoven isn’t the over emotional kind of man…
Bravo Maestro! excellent analyses, very useful for me that i study this great sonata Thx
Excellent video. Top A1.
Just wonder why the staccato's in this piece don't sound like staccato. when all people perform.
They are played a lot with pedal and legato, where you cannot really tell if it is staccato, as if we are playing Chopin.
I experimented with playing those staccato dry and does give an interesting sound, as advised by my teacher.
One idea I think is that the pianos today are too powerful to play this way as it may sound too ruthless and Harsh, but that is my guess.
Thank you very much, this is very very interesting, I just love Beethoven, I do not play piano at all, but like to learn about music
Can't wait for the third movement, the one that I'm playing currently! Awesome video as always, thank you for your work
Thank you aevillarreal! :)
3rd mvt out now!
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Wonderful lesson, thank you very much teacher 😍
Glad you liked it! :)
The song "Somewhere Out There" seems to be based on this same tune.
Love your analysis❤️
Watch your videos make me more understand about classical music !
I really love this piece and im learning how to play it now :D
Great! I think that from 4:03 Beethoven uses almost the very same theme he uses in his violin sonata 'Spring', second movement!
Analisi molto accurata.Lei veramente sa coinvolgere con la Sua didattica originale e moderna. Complimenti, in seguito se possibile desideri l’analisi della sonata di Beethoven n4 op.7
Great analysis
Loved this video. 👏🏼 The emoji usage made me CACKLE
it was very helpful, thanks so much
Glad you liked it! :)
Thanks for your excellent analysis of this beautiful piece. Love that A Natural! I’ve loved this piece more than 40 years and in 13 minutes, you showed me why. By the way, I’m a professional musician and recording artist. Is there a way one can study more analysis from you?
You rock
The chord at 4:19 is nuts and we all know it.
I missed it sadly but I hope I will catch the next premiere
Well, thanks for being here anyway! (and I haven't been very consistent with the premieres...)
@@SonataSecrets i love this channel
why 2:54 aches so good? :(
Bar 48, which key is D full dim 7 from? Thank u
Thanks for this video this is great. Does anyone know anything about the two different written versions of this piece? I first learned it years ago on a version where the left hand does most of the work and the right just plays the melody. I subsequently lost the music but recently bought myself an old second hand copy. My current version is just like it appears here, where the right hand is doing the melody plus the chords, with the left just taking care of the bass. I’m wondering what the original written version was? Why are there two different versions? What is the benefit of playing it one way or another? I couldn’t find anything online about this.
The Wikipedia page on this piece has the other version I’m talking about
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._8_(Beethoven)
Oh, I see. Different editions put the 16th notes in either the right or left hand - but they are always the same notes. Even when they are written in the left hand staff, you cannot reach all of the with the left hand so then you have to go back and forth which hand to play them. In that case I think it's simpler to keep them in the right hand all the time, but I'm sure it's possible to split it too.
@@SonataSecrets Thanks for the reply, that’s really helpful.
Where is the dim chord from? Tks
Beautiful, but it's definitely not the original slurs by Beethoven on this featuring score. And the same original phrasing was repeatedly the same every time the theme appears throughout this movement, not by mistake, I think.
Wobbly head Beethoven
Why do I feel like people can play this ‘song’ much more expressive, but it feels more like a flow when people actually plays it. And the rebato is even more confusing.
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Why do I feel like I heard this watching the anime Bleach