Waldstein Sonata

work by Beethoven

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In harmony: Romantic changes in classical harmony
…the opening movement of the Waldstein Sonata, Opus 53 (completed, 1804), for example, is built on a modulation from the tonic, C major, to the sharply contrasting key of E major, instead of the expected key of G. Much of the individual harmonic language of Franz Schubert is based on…
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