Study Of The Development Of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

Sonata form is a large musical form which is based on two principles——"antitheses" and "unification".Usually, a typical sonata form consists of three parts:exposition, development and recapitulation. Among them,the development is an important part of sonata form. It is in the center of sonata form which can develop original musical thoughts or new musical thoughts. The most fundamental purpose of its existence is in contrast to the exposition which has the characteristic of stability. To sum up,the development is a middle part which is in contrast to the exposition.In the hands of Beethoven, who is one of the most important representative musicians of the classical music, sonata form and the development developed a lot. Only from the length point of view, a number of the developments had even gone beyond the expositions. However, the research on development is always a relatively weak link.Therefore, based on the former study, this article attempts to study the development of Beethoven's piano sonatas from material, tonality and structure.