Beethoven lustig und trauriges
Beethoven lustig und trauriges
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Bagatelle “Lustig und Traurig“, WoO 54
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2011-09-04 — Original posting (on Blogger)
2014-10-28 — Re-posting as is (WordPress)
2016-06-21 — Brushed up for better readability
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The Composition
Presumably around 1798, Ludwig van Beethoven (1779 – 1827) composed a “little nothing”, the Bagatelle “Lustig und Traurig” (Happy and Sad), WoO 54.
The number of recordings of this piece isn’t very big. Artists seem to avoid pieces as simple as this one. Maybe because it is too trivial? Or kids play it “to death” during their piano education?
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If this is true, then it shares that fate with many études and other small pieces by “minor composers” such as Carl Czerny (1791 – 1857) and others. It is quite possible, even likely that such compositions were indeed created in the context of music education.
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