Beethoven cello Sonata no 3 Ludwig van Beethovens Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 was written in 1808. It consists of three movements: Allegro ma non tanto Scherzo. Allegro molto (in A minor) Adagio cantabile – Allegro vivace. The Sonata No. 3 dates from Beethovens most productive compositional period. Composed in the same year were the Violin Concerto and the two piano trios of Op. 70; the same year also saw the completion and publication of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. The first movement opens with the cello alone; variations of its expansive main theme and a pair of contrasting secondary ideas give much cause to contrapuntal and melodic interplay between the two players. The scherzo which follows, in the tonic minor (i.e. A minor), prominently features off-beat accents; the trio in the major is heard twice as in many of Beethovens later scherzos. The briskly-paced finale is preceded by a short slow introduction; the form of the sonata thus resembles that of works such as the Archduke Trio, where the scherzo precedes a slow movement linked to the fast finale.
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