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A bagatelle from a collection a publisher rejected. Bagatelle in D major, Op. 119 No. 3 is a piece by Ludwig van Beethoven. PlayPiano puts it at Level 5, an estimate.
- bagatelle
- playful
Also known as Bagatelle Op. 119 N.3.
History
No. 3 belongs to the first six bagatelles Beethoven offered to Peters in 1822. Peters rejected them in 1823, objecting to their small scale. Ferdinand Ries then helped sell an eleven-piece collection to Clementi in London. The familiar Op. 119 label arrived later in the work’s publishing history.
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What to listen for
A pickup launches a wide-register gesture
The pickup connects to a gesture spread across registers. Hear its shape through the written recurrence.
Chords make a contrasting span
The repeated contrasting section is chordal. Compare its broader attacks with the opening gesture.
Chordal recalls begin the closing span
The later closing span recalls chords after a short entry. Hear their relationship without inventing coda visits.
A descent and climb frame the last gesture
The register descends and rises before an opening-like ending. Follow that larger route into the close.
How to practise it
Keep the high-register figure even and its detached space clear.
- Connect the short opening label to the run.
- Keep the neighbouring notes evenly spaced.
- Preserve the rest before the next upper entry.
How hard is it
The exposed pickup leads to short upper sixteenth-note figures, register changes and a lower tied response. Coordinating releases and phrase continuity are the observed opening demands. Raw high octave values alone do not establish hand positions or an encoding defect.
About this piece
- Licence
- Public Domain Mark
- Source
- musescore.com
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