Key
The Sonata is, though mistakenly, usually titled as being in A-major. Beethoven, however, has never given any key designation (see front page above). The Austrian composer and music theoretician Gerhard Präsent has published his opinion in several articles, that the main key of the sonata is definitely A-minor, and he has as well revealed highly interesting connections to the 6th violin sonata op.30 / 1, for which the 3rd movement originally was composed. He believes that the unusual opening bars of the solo violin are actually kind of a transition from the earlier sonata (or its structural material resp.) to the later work, which also proves that the acquisition of the finale of op.30 / 1 in the "Kreutzer" was a compositional intention - and did not stem from a long-suspected lack of time.
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