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Nearly everyone who knows music would come to know that first movement, impossible to forget from the first hearing, its endlessly murmuring triplets and hazy colors tinged with mysterious yearning and sorrow. The sonata is dedicated to Julie Guicciardi, and if it is Beethoven’s farewell to her, it is a heartbreaking one—but it ends in fury and defiance [...]the finale is marked Presto Agitato, which conveys its implacable ferocity. The mystery and incipient tragedy of the first movement have boiled into fury, expressed in a virtuosity that is the antithesis of the first movement’s simplicity.