Influence
The work, particularly the last movement, had more or less to wait until the twentieth century before its significance was realised (possibly due to the difficulty of gaining a technically competent performance). Even as progressive a musician as Richard Wagner, who appreciated the work and fully admired the late string quartets, held reservations for what he perceived as a lack of succinctness in its composition.
In the twentieth century, Pierre Boulez's Piano Sonata No. 2 applies a serial syntax to the playing style of a Beethoven piano sonata.
The composer Felix Weingartner also produced an orchestration of the sonata.
Read more about this topic: Piano Sonata No. 29 (Beethoven)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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