Mysterious System
OR many months now we have heard a Beethoven piano sonata at the beginning of 1YX’s Classical Hour on a Wednesday night. I fancied we were well into the big stuff towards the end of the book, but last week we switched suddenly back to Op. 2, No. 2, and this week forward again to Op. 8la, There may be a hidden method in this; perhaps they are arranged according to some system of key signatures like that other mighty stumbling-block of all would-be pianists, The Well-Tempered Klavier (a work which is long overdue for a compléte airing by Auckland stations). Of the thousands who enjoy this weekly Beethoven, the majority probably do not mind in which order these sonatas’ come, but there are hundreds of students who are putting serious work into trying to play them, and they would surely be glad to be able to predict when they would hear whichever one is of particular interestto them at the moment.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 290, 12 January 1945, Page 6
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164Mysterious System New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 290, 12 January 1945, Page 6
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