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Beginning with Beethoven, however, composers began to exhibit great freedom in the application of Sonata-Form.

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The firmness of structure inherent in the canonic form is perfectly compatible with genuine freedom and poetry of inspiration.

Walter Raymond Spalding

The Development, beginning in measure 132, is a striking example of how difficult it was—even for an exponent of freedom in musical expression like Schumann—to break loose from the shackles of arbitrary form.

Walter Raymond Spalding