The Power of Beethoven, Part 1

The Virtual Piano Master Course is a series of videos from Steinway Artist Claire Wachter, the creator of the Virtual Piano Pedagogue. The second topic in The Virtual Piano Master Course is a fourvideo series titled The Power of Beethoven, with pianist and presenter Dean Kramer. In this series, Dean illuminates Beethoven s music with fascinating commentary and masterful playing. These videos will inspire pianists to achieve a deeper level of understanding in their interpretation and performance of Beethoven s great solo piano sonatas. In Video 1 of The Power of Beethoven, The Beethoven Persona, Dean challenges the conventional designation of Beethoven s early period solo sonatas to reveal the radical and completely revolutionary advances Beethoven made in the solo piano sonata as early as 1795. The video includes detailed discussion and demonstration of the second movement of the Sonata in A major, Op. 2 focusing o