Examine 32 piano sonatas with Great Courses favorite Professor Robert Greenberg as he combines music, anecdotes, and humor to highlight classic pieces.
Overview
Syllabus
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- 01: Beethoven and the Piano
- 02: Homage to Mozart
- 03: The Grand Sonata, Part 1
- 04: The Grand Sonata, Part 2
- 05: Meaning and Metaphor
- 06: The Striking and Subversive, Op. 10 Continued
- 07: The Pathetique and the Sublime
- 08: The Opus 14 Sonatas
- 09: Motives, Bach and a Farewell to the 18th Century
- 10: A Genre Redefined
- 11: Sonata quasi una fantasia-The Moonlight
- 12: Lesser Siblings and a Pastoral Interlude
- 13: The Tempest
- 14: A Quartet of Sonatas
- 15: The Waldstein and the Heroic Style
- 16: The Appassionata and the Heroic Style
- 17: They Deserve Better, Part 1
- 18: They Deserve Better, Part 2
- 19: The Farewell Sonata
- 20: Experiments in a Dark Time
- 21: The Hammerklavier, Part 1
- 22: The Hammerklavier, Part 2
- 23: In a World of His Own
- 24: Reconciliation
Taught by
Robert Greenberg, PhD
