Leosnkaja Elisabeth © Marco Borggreve
Klavierabend Elisabeth Leonskaja
Beethoven: Die drei letzten Sonaten
Sunday
25
May
2025
19:30
Mozart-Saal
Performers
Elisabeth Leonskaja, Klavier
Programme
Beethoven: Die drei letzten Sonaten
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonate E-Dur op. 109 (1820)
Sonate As-Dur op. 110 (1821)
Sonate c-moll op. 111 (1821–1822)
Festival
41. Internationales Musikfest
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
Sonata triad
Audience favorite Elisabeth Leonskaja has already performed Beethoven's last three piano sonatas several times, although she has worked on the works for different lengths of time: »I played the E major Sonata (op. 109) as a teenager«, the pianist said in an interview (»Die Presse«). »I then rehearsed Opus 111 quite soon and performed it again and again as a single, large work in other program contexts. However, I only learned the middle sonata (op. 110) when the idea of performing the sonatas as a coherent whole was born.« And that is exactly what Leonskaja dares to do on May 25: she will interpret Beethoven's last »Sonata Triad«, the conclusion of what Hans von Bülow once described as the »New Testament« of piano literature - three works in which the otherwise often so brusque Beethoven shows himself from a more lyrical side.