Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

by

James Weldon Johnson

Beethoven’s famously tragic and haunting eighth piano sonata.
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Beethoven’s “Sonata Pathétique” Term Timeline in Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

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Chapter 3
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...benefit concert; the violinist, now married, played but was losing her talent. The narrator performed Beethoven’s “Sonata Pathétique ” more solemnly than ever and ended up with another 200 dollars. Altogether, his 400... (full context)