Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Bagatelles Opus 33 119 126: Piano: Instrumental

Complete Bagatelles-The present volume contains the complete Bagatelles of Beethoven which are here reproduced according to the edition of the Pianoforte works already issued by the same publisher (HN12). Progressingfrom his youthful works we here learn to know the Beethoven of the ‘middle’ period as manifested let us say in the virtuosity and power of the Bagatelles op. 33 nos. 5 and 7. In the Bagatelles op. 119 and 126 thesimple humanity and goodness of the ‘late’ Beethoven then speak to us in a conclusive form. This edition closely follows Beethoven’s manner of notation. In distributing the notes betweenthe two staves exactly as in the autographs (that is by abandoning the usual and more convenient change of clef which disturbs the visual uniformity of the notation) the vertical tonal connections and relationships are now moreeasily perceptible of the eye.