Thirty-two piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven are among the pinnacles of music and art in general. Created throughout nearly the entire life of the great composer, the piano sonatas absorbed almost all the diversity of his style. They are filled with a vivid sense of fiery striving for virtue, a colossal scope, a wide range of moods, psychological states, thoughts, concepts, titanic will, dramatic and constructive genius. They are a kind of monument to everything that is best in man.
The undersigned will find it gratifying if this work helps, even in the most modest measure, to the knowledge of Beethoven’s great music.
Mikhail Lidsky