For Beethoven's 250th anniversary in 2020, the German pianist STEPHAN MÖLLER had planned a worldwide tour "Beethoven 32x32", with 32 complete performances of Beethoven's 32 sonatas on 6 continents! Most of these performances were cancelled due to the "Covid" outbreak; however a few, in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan, could still take place. Others were postponed and will be made up in 2023. Stephan Möller first gained pianistic prominence as a prizewinner at the 1985 International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna. Since then his busy concert schedule has taken him to Japan, China, North and South America as well as all over Europe. 1983 through 1989, he worked with Herbert von Karajan and other world-renowned conductors at the Salzburg Festival. Besides performing the entire standard repertoire, Stephan Möller has concentrated on the interpretation of the Viennese Classics, Beethoven in particular. Among Stephan Möller's CD recordings, there are such rarities as Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge”, played four-hands with himself on a computer-assisted Bösendorfer concert-grand, and the complete original piano works by Richard Wagner. His recording of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas is work in progress. Born 1955 in Hamburg, Germany, Stephan Möller received his degrees as a pianist and orchestra conductor at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria. His important teachers were Peter Heilbut in Hamburg, Kurt Seibert in Bremen and Hans Leygraf in Salzburg. From 1990 until his retirement in 2020, Stephan Möller held a teaching position at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. Since 2020, Stephan Möller is on the piano faculty of the Richard Wagner Conservatory in Vienna. He is frequently invited for hold masterclasses, lectures, and international competition juries at home and abroad. He is president of the "Vienna International Pianists" association and their successful festival, the “VIP Academy”, vice-president of the "Gesellschaft für Musiktheater", and a board member of the "Wiener Beethovengesellschaft". In 2009, he founded the “International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition”.

Beethoven: The 32 piano sonatas.
Program Four: Sunday, Oct. 29
Sonate Nr. 27 e-Moll, op. 90 (1814)
Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen

Sonate Nr. 28 A-Dur, op. 101 (1816)
Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung
Lebhaft. Marschmäßig
Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll –
Geschwinde, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit Entschlossenheit

Sonate Nr. 29 B-Bur, op. 106 (1817/18)
“Große Sonate für das Hammer-Klavier”
Allegro
Scherzo. Assai vivace
Adagio sostenuto
Largo –
Allegro risoluto. Fuga a tre voci, con alcune licenze

INTERVAL

Sonate Nr. 30 E-Dur, op. 109 (1820)
Vivace, ma non troppo / Adagio espressivo
Prestissimo
Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung

Sonate Nr. 31 As-Dur, op. 110 (1821)
Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
Allegro molto
Adagio ma non troppo – Fuga. Allegro ma non troppo

Sonate Nr. 32 c-Moll, op. 111 (1822)
Maestoso – Allegro con brio ed appassionato
Arietta. Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

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