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In 1820, he first finished the last five bagatelles of Op. 119, and published them as a set of five in June 1821 for Wiener Pianoforteschule Schule by Friedrich Stark. [2] The following year, he revised his old bagatelle sketches to construct a new collection for publication, adding a final bagatelle, No. 6, composed in late 1822. [3]
The Northern Irish composer Howard Ferguson wrote a set of Five Bagatelles for piano (Op. 9), which, along with his Piano Sonata in F minor, are among the composer's few regularly performed works. William Walton also wrote Five Bagatelles for the classical guitar for Julian Bream dedicated to composer Malcolm Arnold around 1970. [4]
The indication alla ingharese is of interest, as no such word as "ingharese" exists in standard Italian. 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]
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.
In music, Op. 119 stands for Opus number 119. Compositions that are assigned this number include: Beethoven – Bagatelles, Op. 119; Brahms – Four Pieces for Piano; Klebe – Gervaise Macquart; Prokofiev – Cello Sonata; Reger – Die Weihe der Nacht; Saint-Saëns – Cello Concerto No. 2; Schumann – 3 Gedichte
"Rondo a Capriccio in G major Op. 129 'Rage Over a Lost Penny'" 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 "No. 7, in A-Flat major; Presto" from Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33; Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight" "I. Adagio ...
Op. 26 in A-flat major contains a 'marcia funebre' which foreshadows that of the 'Eroica' symphony; Op. 27, no. 2 in C-sharp minor 'Quasi una fantasia' (the famous 'Moonlight' sonata) has the dramatic sonata form movement come last instead of first, and Op. 31, No. 3 in E-flat major contains both a scherzo and a minuet, sacrificing a slow movement.
The fourth bagatelle is a gentle andante in A major. The middle section is in the key of A minor. The fifth bagatelle, which perhaps is the hardest of the set, is in the key of C major. It starts off with arpeggios, a little similar to Chopin's Étude Op. 10, No. 1. After the introduction, the right hand and the left hand play the melody with ...