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His hearing began to deteriorate in the late 1790s, yet he continued to compose, conduct, and perform, even after becoming completely deaf.","image":"https://s.musopen.org/media/images/composers/beethoven.jpg","is_featured":true,"is_bookmarked":false},"form":{"id":15,"url":"https://api.musopen.org/v2/forms/15/","slug":"sonata","name":"Sonata","description":"A sonata is a work in three or four movements (rarely two, or more than four) for a single instrument or a small number of performers. The term evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of forms prior to the Classical era. By the early 19th century the word came to define a multi movement work, almost always including a first movement in the so called 'sonata form', a second movement of a slow, contrasting character; a dance for third movement, and a finale in a rondo, theme and variations, or sonata form. The term 'sonata form' refers to the layout of the first movement of a sonata, which confronts two main themes of different quality, develops them and then recapitulates. This soon became a basic principle in academic music writing. It was applied to many forms of large works, and, together with the fugue, defined the composition and musical analysis procedures for almost a century. Today it is still widely studied, and sonatas continued to be written, even if musical languages have changed.","is_bookmarked":false},"period":{"id":4,"url":"https://api.musopen.org/v2/periods/4/","slug":"romantic","name":"Romantic","description":"The term 'Romantic music' denotes a period of Western academic music that lasted throughout most of the 19th century, framing itself in Romanticism, the European artistic and literary movement. Romantic music is often characterized as being a reaction to the contained elegance and purity of the Classical period, though the reality is far more complex. Romantic composers were often fascinated with several -often contradictory- subjects: Nature and man's constant struggle against it, everything supernatural and fabulous, the mythical past, the autobiographical and the heroic, the isolated genius, the future of mankind. Improvements in instrumental design and technique, and the growth of orchestras, expanded the possibilities for composers. The rise of the middle class and the emancipation of musicians from courts and patrons represented a change in the way music reached the society. Some of the Romantic composers took an interest in nationalistic music, expressing the state of turmoil that Europe suffered. Musical forms continued to develop: while symphonies became longer and more complex, short musical forms blossomed (such as Chopin's nocturnes). Interest in preservation of the music of the past grew, as well as the will to develop music beyond its current state in terms of form, harmony, counterpoint, etc. ","is_bookmarked":false},"instruments":[{"id":73,"url":"https://api.musopen.org/v2/instruments/73/","slug":"solo-instrument-and-piano","name":"Solo Instrument and Piano","description":"","image":null,"is_bookmarked":false},{"id":197,"url":"https://api.musopen.org/v2/instruments/197/","slug":"violin","name":"Violin","description":"The violin is the smallest member of the violin family of string instruments. It uses four strings tuned in perfect fifths (G, D, A, and E), which are attacked either by a bow or plucked with the left and right hands.  The violin, together with the piano, is considered an iconic instrument of the Western 'classical' music tradition. As such, it enjoys an immense popularity, and it has been adopted for genres outside academic music, such as blues, country, jazz, rock and roll, heavy metal, and different folkloric musical expressions all over the world.","image":"https://s.musopen.org/media/images/instruments/violin3.jpg","is_bookmarked":false}],"key":{"id":22,"url":"https://api.musopen.org/v2/keys/22/","slug":"c-minor","name":"C Minor","is_bookmarked":false},"licenses":["CC-PD","CC-BY-NC-ND"],"avg_duration":25,"practice_difficulty":"medium","rcm_difficulty_level":"","rating":4.0,"hits":25463,"is_bookmarked":false},"key":null,"instruments":[],"rating":0.0,"fileurl":"https://dl.musopen.org/sheetmusic/b63d2dd0-d01c-413f-a730-b664d3996e90.pdf?filename=Complete%20Score.pdf","is_bookmarked":false}