Legacy
Chopin was known to have greatly admired this sonata. In two of his works, the second piano sonata and the Revolutionary Etude, he alluded to the opening and ending of the sonata's first movement, respectively (compare the opening bars of the two sonatas, and bars 77-81 of Chopin's Etude with bars 150-152 in the first movement of Beethoven's sonata).
Prokofiev based the structure of his Symphony No. 2 on this sonata.
In 2009, the Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero wrote a composition for piano solo entitled Op. 111 - Bagatella su Beethoven, which is a blend of themes from this sonata and Dmitri Shostakovich's musical monogram DSCH.
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