Home / Music / Beethoven's Op. 132 stretches sonata form to three rotationsMusic linernotes album music ludwig-van-beethovenBeethoven's Op. 132 stretches sonata form to three rotationsThe first movement features a modified sonata form with three full rotations of expositional material, each with a different tonal plan, rather than the usual two. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesBeethoven's Op. 135 is the lightest of the late quartets — short, Classical, almost playfulBeethoven's First Symphony nods to Haydn and Mozart but the sforzandi are all his ownBeethoven's Hammerklavier held the title for longest standard piano sonataBeethoven's String Quartet No. 14 has seven connected movementsBeethoven's String Quartet No. 15 has five movementsExploreDeutsche Grammophon released Nathan Milstein's landmark Bach recordingECM Records released Jan Garbarek's Neighbourhood in 2005Alison Krauss & Union Station's New Favorite came out on Rounder RecordsColumbia Records released Laura Nyro's New York Tendaberry, her most commercially successful album at the timeSugar Hill Records released Nickel Creek's The Easy Wonder in 2005Previous Beethoven's Op. 132 third movement is a thanksgiving song from a survivorNext Beethoven's Op. 132 inspired T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets