Designing a Recital around Hammerklavier Movement 3
Hi! I'm interested in learning the Adagio Sostenuto 'mausoleum of sorrow' movement of Beethoven's Hammerklavier but have no interest at all in grinding out the fugue to a performance standard.
I know that in Kinderman's book on the Diabelli Variations, he points out that they lead almost perfectly into the Arietta from Sonata 32 to the point where you could probably perform the Diabellis and then the Arietta and forgo movement 1 of that sonata.
I'm curious if anyone knows of, or can devise, a similar connection between the Hammerklavier sonata's third movement and other music, either by Beethoven or by other composers. I don't want to strip it totally of context and leave it naked. It's not necessarily about the difficulty of the Hammerklavier fugue being totally prohibitive, but I would need to really love a piece to devote those hundreds of hours to it and I really kinda just like that third movement from that sonata.