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          In an essay much-quoted in Soviet media, Russian writer Maxim Gorky described how Lenin praised the "Appassionata" as an astonishing and superhuman work of music which he would never tire of listening to, but which also churned up humane – and therefore dangerous – emotions..

          The inconquerable Appassionata

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          norman lebrecht

          May 22, 2020

          Welcome to the 73rd work in the Slipped Disc/Idagio Beethoven Edition

          Piano sonata No. 23 in F minor op.

          57, ‘Appassionata’ (1804)

          Three times as many pianists have recorded the 23rd sonata as those who performed the 22nd.

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        1. The following discussion examines this fascinating footnote to the biographical literature on Lenin and sheds some light on the larger question of Beethoven.
        2. In an essay much-quoted in Soviet media, Russian writer Maxim Gorky described how Lenin praised the "Appassionata" as an astonishing and superhuman work of music which he would never tire of listening to, but which also churned up humane – and therefore dangerous – emotions.
        3. Lenin's deep love of Beethoven's Appassionata highlights the relationship between high culture and Soviet ideology.
        4. Gorky recorded Lenin's very characteristic words spoken after he listened to Beethoven's Appassionata sonata: “I know the Appassionata inside out and yet I am.

          5. The so-called Appassionata took off in public esteem when a publisher gave it the present title, a decade after Beethoven died. Among its ardent fans was the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who told Maxim Gorky: ‘I know nothing that is greater than the Appassionata; I would like to listen to it every day.

          It is marvellous, superhuman music. I always think with pride – perhaps it is naïve of me – what marvellous things humans can do.’

          What we know of its composition is that Beethoven dreamed it up while taking daylong walks in the Vienna Woods, near Döbling, in July 1804.

          His pupil Ferdinand Ries recalled: “We went so far astray that we did