EGU 2025 Awards & Medals Ceremony - Chamber Music Performance

This sonata was a watershed piece for Beethoven, marking the leap from a gifted, innovative composer to the revolutionary activist who rewrote the rules of musical art. He dedicated it to Robert Kreutzer, who never actually played it. Who refused to perform it. He said "it's toxic for the violin and by implication toxic for the audience, because it makes absolutely no sense musically, and its also too difficult".