Brendel plays Rondo a Capriccio, in G major, Op. 129

Alfred Brendel plays Lv. Beethoven's Rondo a Capriccio, in G major, Op. 129, nicknamed "Rage over a lost penny" (Die Wut über den verlorenen Groschen) by Beethoven's biographer Anton Schindler.

Although the piece was written in 1795, when Beethoven was only 25, and Beethoven himself played the Rondo in 1798, the manuscript was found only after his death in 1827, and was first published in 1828 by Anton Diabelli (he of the variations), who took great pains to convince the public the manuscript was complete, which in fact it was not. Among the suspects who may have completed, and edited (accidentally omitting eight measures), the Rondo are Diabelli, whose penchant for tampering with other composers' works is not unknown, and Carl Czerny, Beethoven's student, friend, and favorite piano transcriber.

After a disappearance of some hundred years, the original, in Beethoven's hand, reappeared just after World War II, in a private collection. From it Erich Hertzmann, a musicologist, prepared a new edition, which was published in 1949.

Scores: http://imslp.org/wiki/Rondo_a_Capriccio,_Op.129_%28Beethoven,_Ludwig_van%29

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• Rondo a Capriccio
• Beethoven
• Alfred Brendel
• Op. 129
• Rage over a Lost Penny

[adamobarca]

played with demonic virtuoso.

brendel is the greatest captain of his era.