{"product_id":"beethoven-six-bagatelles-op-126","title":"Beethoven: Six Bagatelles op. 126","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eG. Henle Publishers\u003c\/b\u003e stands for \u003cb\u003eUrtext\u003c\/b\u003e sheet music of the highest quality. The Urtext editions not only provide the undistorted and authoritative musical text but are also aesthetically pleasing, optimised for practical use and extremely durable. And then there is the strong, distinctive blue profile: (almost) all of the Urtext editions are bound in the characteristic blue cardboard. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMusicians trust Henle's blue Urtext editions because they: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eprovide an undistorted, reliable and authoritative musical text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eoffer superb, aesthetically appealing music engraving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eare optimised for practical use (page turns, fingerings)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eare of high quality and durable (cover, paper, binding)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003econtain a short preface that introduces the work (particularly useful for AMEB exams) in German, English and French, as well as explanatory footnotes for particularly interesting passages in the score\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003econtain a description of the sources, an evaluation of the sources, readings and a documentation of the corrections made (= \"Critical Report\") in German and English, and often also in French\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIn contrast to the Bagatelles op. 119, the Bagatelles op. 126, composed in 1824, were planned as a cycle from the outset. What these new bagatelles have in common are a basic tripartite form and the highly developed technique of deriving variations and contrasts from small motifs. The novelty of these pieces, which at the same all but marked \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBeethoven\u003c\/span\u003e’s farewell to piano music, did not remain hidden from his contemporaries. Thus, a reviewer opined in 1826: “These six more or less short pieces contain more that is truly new and entirely distinctive, partly in the melodies or harmonies themselves, partly in both the appearance and form, than many an act of an opera”. An additional attraction is their moderate level of difficulty, which makes the Bagatelles accessible also to amateurs.\u003cbr\u003eOpus 126 is now available for the first time from Henle in a revised single edition, edited by Beethoven specialist Joanna Cobb Biermann, who, in addition to the 1825 first edition, also consulted all the surviving autograph manuscripts. Beethoven described these, his last Bagatelles, as “probably the best of this kind that I have written” – judge for yourself!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67853192724612,"sku":"HN1685","price":32.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0366\/6984\/9732\/files\/HN1685.png?v=1792983194","url":"https:\/\/www.musicjunction.com.au\/products\/beethoven-six-bagatelles-op-126","provider":"Music Junction Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}