The title and the various superscriptions naturally cause the sonata to be ranked as programme-music, but of a very simple kind.
Beethoven's quiet, dignified utterances deserve special attention in these days of programme-music.
His four sonatas belong undeniably, though with a variously strict allegiance, to the domain of programme-music.
It need scarcely be said that this "programme-music" is innocent either of originality or of instrumental colouring.
