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False claim about the Pathétique sonata

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The first movement of the Pathétique was definitely not the first to contain two tempos. Even within Beethoven's sonatas, the third movement of Sonata No. 5 contains both the tempos of Prestissimo and Adagio. I've even seen a Haydn sonata with the markings of both Moderato and Adagio in the first movement. Either this statement needs to be vastly clarified or it's just entirely incorrect. ~Lord Marcellus 06:04, 7 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Editions

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We need to say something about the various scholarly editions of the sonatas. We could write a book about this. -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 20:57, 26 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dates of Sonatas

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I noticed that multiple sources say that Beethoven's sonatas were written from 1792 to 1822. This Wikipedia article states that he started writing in 1795. I wanted to suggest that we change 1795 to 1792. I thought I would suggest it before I made the edit to see what you guys think. The source that I found that states he started writing in 1792 is here: Beethoven Piano Sonatas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ridebuilder5 (talkcontribs) 14:53, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Performances and recordings

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Who the hell are Roger Woodward and Michael Houstoun? Why are they mentioned as having performed cycles of the sonatas when many very famous pianists have done so? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.168.104.6 (talk) 19:43, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]