Ludwig van Beethoven - Bagatelle in G minor, op. 119, no. 1 [Score]

Performed via Garageband&"Steinway Grand Piano". Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical music repertoire, and span the transition from the classical period to the romantic era in classical music. His career has conventionally been divided into early, middle, and late periods. The "early" period, during which he forged his craft, is typically considered to have lasted until 1802. From 1802 to around 1812, his "middle" period showed an individual development from the "classical" styles of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and is sometimes characterized as "heroic". During this time, he began to suffer increasingly from deafness. In his "late" period from 1812 to his death in 1827, he extended his innovations in musical form and expression. Bagatelles, op. 119 (1822) - No. 1 in G minor The eleven Bagatelles of Op.119 were sketched and revised in several stages between the 1790s and the early 1820s, and assembled in one collection in 1823. Beethoven had sketched the first five of bagatelles by the end of 1803, and composed the last five bagatelles in 1820. The last five bagatelles were composed specially for Friedrich Starke’s “Wiener Pianoforte-Schule (Vienna Pianoforte School),” and were referred to as Kleinigkeiten (German for “trifles”) in the third part of the...