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So I've been relistening to the Beethoven sonatas lately and I can say that I've reconsidered my opinion of them. I've become especially fond of the third movement of "Tempest," which rings with a fury that I find profoundly beautiful.

Not sure what it is with Beethoven, but I find the third movement to be the best in most of his sonatas, especially Moonlight. The only exception is the Pathetique, in which I prefer the first and second.

I'm glad to hear it. Beethoven has been praised by many musicologists (allegedly, and one or two who I've confirmed) for his profound understanding of pacing, for lack of a better word, in music. His ideas are so perfectly contrasted in the overall scheme of the structure and order of movements which really puts Beethoven ahead of a lot of his contemporaries, IMO.