SKU: HL.49019217

ISBN 9790001179386. UPC: 841886017740. 9.0x12.0x0.067 inches.

Beethoven wrote several works for mandolin and piano for Countess Josephine of Clary-Aldringen, who played the mandolin. Four of these works are still extant and have been arranged by Julius Berger for cello and piano.

SKU: HL.14016246

8.25x11.75x0.054 inches.

It is a surprising fact of Beethoven's life that of all the categories of pieces he composed, there are more settings of Irish songs than of any other type of music. Scottish poet Robert Burns convinced a Scottish music publisher to commission Beethoven to set his own words to Irish airs. The death of Burns in 1796 ended the project, but Beethoven went on to harmonise and arrange the songs in 1814 through 1816, mainly, and they were published, though never achieved as great a popularity as a rival set by Thomas Moore.This simplified version for easy Cello and Piano was arranged by composer Hugo Cole, an accomplished cellist who was for many years a music critic for theGuardian newspaper.

SKU: IM.3856

Written not long after Mozart's death, the young Beethoven wrote these variations on Papageno's witty aria from Die Zauberflote.