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Topic: 8 Variations for Piano on a late Beethoven Piano sketch  (Read 1040 times)

Offline gprengel

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A few years ago a short sketch for a Bagatelle from 1826 was identified among Beethoven's sketches. On this simple, beautiful and melancholic theme - his last melody for piano ! -with an harmonically interesting bassline I wrote 8 variations for piano. Besides bars 9-12 the first 16 bars are from Beethoven.

What do you think ...?

Gerd