Beethoven’s Jazz (Piano Sonata No. 32, op. 111)

“to a modern ear, has a striking resemblance to cheerful boogie-woogie, and the closeness of it to jazz and ragtime, which were still eighty years into the future at the time, has often been pointed out. Jeremy Denk, for example, describes the second movement using terms like “proto-jazz“ and “boogie-woogie“. Typical performances take 8 to 9 minutes for the first movement, and 15 to 18 minutes for the second.“ Piano: John Ogdon