Piano; Harp
SKU:
UT.MAG-275
Composed
by Ludwig van Beethoven.
Edited by Anna Pasetti.
Saddle stitching.
Magadis. Classical. Ut
Orpheus #MAG 275.
Published by Ut Orpheus
(UT.MAG-275).
ISBN
9790215326873. 9 x 12
inches.
Ludwig van
Beethoven composed this
small series of
variations without opus
number (now cataloged as
WoO 64) in the years
between 1790 and 1792,
shortly before his moving
from Bonn to Vienna, when
he was still working for
the von Breuning family
and taking lessons from
Christian Gottlob Neefe.
The manuscript of this
composition is unusually
clean and without errors
and does not show the
indication for harp,
which instead appears in
the first print,
published in Bonn in 1798
by Simrock.
It is not
known exactly if their
destination for the harp
was in Beethoven’s
intentions from the
beginning or if it was an
initiative of the
publisher that he
eventually
approved.
These
Variations are based on
the theme of the Swiss
song Es hätt
‘and’ Buur e
‘Töchterli,
attested in the
collections of popular
songs since 1781, which
tells the story of a
pastoral love between the
young Dursli and
Babeli.