Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata

Perspectives of Analysis and Performance

edited by P. Berge and J. D'hoe

Book cover: Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata

Extent: 341 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts

Series: Analysis in Context. Leuven Studies in Musicology

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2009)

ISBN: 9789042922891

Price: $93.00

Out of stock

PDF (Published)

(September 2009)

ISBN: 9789042955370

Price: $117.00

For music analysts and performers alike, Beethoven’s Tempest sonata (1802) represents one of the most challenging pieces of the classical and early romantic piano repertoire. This book is a collection of eleven essays, each dealing with this sonata from a different analytical perspective and investigating the possible connections between music analysis and the practice of performance.


For music analysts and performers alike, Beethoven’s Tempest sonata (1802) represents one of the most challenging pieces of the classical and early romantic piano repertoire. This book is a collection of eleven essays, each dealing with this sonata from a different analytical perspective and investigating the possible connections between music analysis and the practice of performance. Under the editorship of Pieter Berge, Jeroen D’hoe and William E. Caplin, the book presents essays by Scott Burnham (hermeneutics), Poundie Burstein (Schenkerian approach), Kenneth Hamilton (history of performance), Robert Hatten (semiotics), James Hepokoski (Sonata Theory), William Kinderman (source studies), William Rothstein (tempo, rhythm, and meter), Douglas Seaton (narratology), Steven Vande Moortele (20th-century Formenlehre) and the editors themselves (motivic analysis and form-functional approach respectively).

  • Edited by P Berge
  • Edited by WE Caplin
  • Edited by J D’hoe