The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Honors Theses Honors College Summer 8-2013 Beethoven's Opus 96: The Sonata for Piano and Violin Perfected Paul S. Roberts University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses Part of the Composition Commons Recommended Citation Roberts, Paul S., "Beethoven's Opus 96: The Sonata for Piano and Violin Perfected" (2013). Honors Theses. 187. https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/187 This Honors College Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College at The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi Beethoven's Opus 96: The Sonata for Piano and Violin Perfected by Paul Stanton Roberts A Thesis Submitted to the Honors College of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Music Performance in the Department of Music August, 2013 ii Approved by ______________________________ Stephen Redfield, Professor of Violin ______________________________ Michael Miles, Chair Department of Music ______________________________ David R. Davies, Dean Honors College iii Abstract This thesis attempts to shed light on Beethoven's final sonata for Piano and Violin, the Sonata for Piano and Violin op. 96 in G major. Presented first is a survey of music for violin and piano throughout previous centuries (in itself a valuable resource for those who want to approach this ambiguous and disorganized subject) followed by a discussion of Beethoven's sonatas leading up to the composition of Opus 96.