Hommage an Ludwig van Beethoven

The film begins with a visualization of Beethovens Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor Op 111 and Wyborny nearly misses the first movement Yes the savage and bare fire Kaiser of this tempestuous last piece of Beethoven nearly tears him apart He who while the aggressive Allegro explodes when the sonata has begun to spread out with a deliberately false address in the old French overture rhythm gets wrapped up in every pause and every peak he who absolutely wants to work on these dialectical poles of tension in the finest agogic gradations to shape the contrasts of the tempo in an angular way will be torn apart Wyborny escapes from the abyss Beethoven would have done the same in an emergency improvising on his own Many spectators probably did not notice the drama Others noticed it were shocked pulled themselves together took a breath and then were overwhelmed by the ingenious solution