Beethoven Waltz in D

Piano Today | January 1, 2009| | Copyright

Are you surprised that Beethoven composed waltzes? So was I! It was when I was recording my CD of piano waltzes (Brioso 142), and editing a companion print volume for Dover Publications, that I looked through Beethoven's work list and found he had composed two. (Two pieces designated "waltz," that is. Obviously, Nos. 3 and 9 of the Bagatelles Op. 119 are waltzes in everything but title. The tempo marking of No. 3 acknowledges it as a "German dance," which was used more or less interchangeably with "waltz" in the classical era.)

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