Beethoven's Rage Over a Lost Penny

Beethoven's Rage Over a Lost Penny, Vented in a Caprice (German: Die Wut über den verlorenen Groschen, ausgetobt in einer Caprice) in G major, Opus 129, is an unfinished piano rondo composed between 1795 and 1798. This delightful piece is also called Rondo in the Hungarian/Gypsy Style, Almost a Caprice (Italian: Rondo alla ingharese quasi un capriccio). Robert Schumann wrote of the work that "[I]t would be difficult to find anything merrier than this whim ... It is the most amiable harmless anger, similar to that felt when one cannot pull a shoe from off the foot ..."

The music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of humanity's greatest treasures. Unsurpassed in its power of expression as well as its depth and diversity of ideas and feelings, it provides boundless joy to listeners and performers.

Tutorial

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• Part 2

• Part 3

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