“It is the spirit which holds together noble and better men on this earth that is now addressed to you”, Beethoven wrote thus to the dedicatee of the Sonata op. 109, the nineteen-year-old Maximiliane Brentano in 1821. Beethoven had already composed a little piano trio (B flat major WoO 39) for her in 1812. And now she was receiving a very different kind of work – the first of the heavyweight last three piano sonatas. It remains astounding that Beethoven initially wrote the first movement as a piano work in its own right, only later deciding to expand it into a complete sonata, which today appears to have been hewn from one piece of stone.

Murray Perahia (Fingering Piano, Editor)
Norbert Gertsch (Editor)

• Finally, this wonderfully lyrical Beethoven piano sonata, one of his later compositions, appears in the Perahia edition, edited by Norbert Gertsch and Murray Perahia.
• With a detailed preface, footnotes and commentary.
• Fingering by Murray Perahia
• For advanced amateurs and professionals