String Trio - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1239590 Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Arranged by James M. Guthrie, ASCAP. Chamber,Classical,Contest,Festival,Historic,Traditional. 5 pages. Jmsgu3 #834955. Published by jmsgu3 (A0.1239590). Beethoven's Six Easy Variations on a Swiss Song, WoO 64, is a set of variations for piano composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1790 and 1792 in Bonn when he was 21 years old. The theme of the variations is a 17th-century Swiss song called Dursli and Babeli, a favorite of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who described it as a charming story of peasant love. The melody is light and soaring, and it resembles a hymn that followed a century or so later, This Joyful Eastertide. In variation I, Beethoven introduces a melody subjected to ornamentation with triplet intervallic and scalar patterns.
