Thanks, spel, for the Saturday Edition of the Salsa Addiction Emergency Room! ((HUGS))
Beethoven still didnt trust himself to write a slow movement for cello, fearing it would degenerate into sentimental slush. That would take another decade to cure. So for this piece he wrote a slow introduction to the finale marked adagio cantabile in 2/4 time. It only lasts half a page.
The finale in sonata format is marked allegro vivace in 2/2 and starts quietly, but that first subject is wonderful and beautifully harmonized. The second subject is in E Major, and its joyous. The exposition is repeated.
Development goes to the minor before an exuberant C Major, then loses itself in a harmonic maze before finding its bearings with the recap.
Lou re-composes his recap, and everything ends up in A Major where it belongs. The end is exuberant and never fails to bring the house down.
Next Saturday, its the entire Ghost Trio, not just the slow movement that I play every Halloween.
No prob, Ma! ;-)