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Portrait of Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven, the composer's younger brother and dedicatee of the six bagatelles, c. 1841 by an unknown artist. A bagatelle, in Beethoven's usage, is a kind of brief character piece. [citation needed] The set comprises six short works, as follows: Andante con moto, Cantabile e compiacevole, G major, 3 4; Allegro, G ...
Allegramente: The shortest piece Beethoven published at just 13 measures long. [11] The piece uses two 4 bar phrases, and ends with a 4 bar coda. B ♭ major. Andante, ma non troppo: The final piece in the set is in Binary form with a codetta. The first 4 bars repeat once. This bagatelle highlighted Beethoven’s late compositional style. [12]
The second bagatelle, in C major, is the perhaps the second hardest of the set. It contains third scales, arpeggios, and a continuous left hand scale. The third bagatelle, in F major, starts off with the right hand playing the introduction and the left hand playing arpeggios. The fourth bagatelle is a gentle andante in A major.
The Andante favori was written between 1803 and 1804, and published in 1805. It was originally intended to be the second of the three movements of Beethoven's Waldstein Piano Sonata, Op. 53. The following extract from Thayer's Beethoven biography [1] explains the change:
Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.
The variations in the Eroica Symphony follow this same pattern. In another departure from traditional variation form, after the fifteen variations of the main theme, Beethoven finishes the work with a finale consisting of a fugal variation followed by two more variations marked Andante con moto.
Beethoven or Bust, ... Mixed Bagatelles "No. 6, in G major; Andante-Allegretto" from Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119 "No. 2, in G minor; Allegro" from Six Bagatelles, Op. 126
To people of Beethoven's day, "Gypsy music" and "Hungarian music" were synonymous terms. Beethoven seems to have conflated alla zingarese (in the Gypsy style) and all'ongarese (in the Hungarian style) to come up with the term alla ingharese. [3] Robert Schumann wrote of the work that "it would be difficult to find anything merrier than this ...