SKU: HH.HH425-FSP

ISBN 9790708146261.

Among Vienna’s many composers and pianists of the time, Anton Eberl (1765–1807) was the one considered most worthy of comparison with Beethoven. His Sonata in A minor, Op.10 No.1, is probably the third of his seven sonatas with violin, and was published with an optional ‘basse’ – doubtless intended to be a part for a cellist – which permitted performance as a piano trio. In its duration, formal and harmonic novelty, and in the lively relationship between the violin and keyboard, his Op.10 No.1 shares much of the musical ambition and quality of Beethoven’s early works in this genre.