The thirty-two part work Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata 1–32 developed from the following consideration: How might it be possible to reflect Ludwig van Beethoven’s music on a universal level without a new notation becoming an illustration or merely a pure interpretation of the music? The greatest challenge for me was to develop a notation that would “extract” the extremely emotional spectrum that is embedded in a Beethoven composition. This “extraction” occurred along the structure of the urtext score, which transports and communicates the experience of music.