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"A comprehensive and immersive survey of thirty-five Beethoven piano sonatas Beethoven’s piano sonatas are among the iconic cornerstones of the classical music repertoire. Jan Marisse Huizing offers an in-depth study of the sonatas using available autograph and first editions and nearly three hundred musical examples. Digging into the historical background and historical performance practices of the piano sonatas, Huizing provides illuminating detail on Beethoven’s characteristics of notation, form and content, ""types of touch,"" articulation, beaming, pedal indications, character, rubato, meter, metric constructions, metronome marks, and tempo."

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Jan Marisse Huizing is Emeritus Professor of Piano and Piano Methodology at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and served as artistic director of The International Holland Music Sessions. His publications include Frédéric Chopin: TheEtudes (Schott). Gerald R. Mettam translates extensively in life sciences and music, alongside The Cost of Sugar and other historical novels by Cynthia McLeod.

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