Beethoven Dances for Piano - Piano Solo (Henle HN 449)

The Menuett, the Deutscher Tanz, the Kontretanz and the Ecossaise were extraordinarily popular social dances during Beethoven’s lifetime. Thus along with sonatas and variations Beethoven on numerous occasions composed easy-to-play dances and dance collections for solo piano, which are brought together in their entirety for the first time in our volume. Beethoven did not give these occasional pieces an opus number, so today they are numbered only as WoO (Werke ohne Opus, or works without opus). A few dances are piano arrangements of orchestral dances, since piano reductions for home music-making were indispensable at that time. As is to be expected from a substantial Urtext edition, the preface and Critical Notes for this important collection deal with the complex source situation of the individual pieces, along with the question of the authenticity of these piano arrangements.

Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven
Editor: Robert Forster
Format: Henle Urtext Edition, softcover
Pages: 88
Henle number: HN 449

Contents

• 12 Minuets WoO 7
• 12 German Dances WoO 8
• German Dance C major WoO 8,1
• German Dance A major WoO 8,2
• German Dance F major WoO 8,3
• German Dance B flat major WoO 8,4
• German Dance E flat major WoO 8,5
• German Dance G major WoO 8,6
• German Dance C major WoO 8,7
• German Dance A major WoO 8,8
• German Dance F major WoO 8,9
• German Dance D major WoO 8,10
• German Dance G major WoO 8,11
• German Dance C major WoO 8,12
• 6 Minuets WoO 10
• Minuet C major WoO 10,1
• Minuet G major WoO 10,2
• Minuet E flat major WoO 10,3
• Minuet B flat major WoO 10,4
• Minuet D major WoO 10,5
• Minuet C major WoO 10,6
• 7 "Ländlerische" Dances WoO 11
• "Ländlerischer" Dance D major WoO 11,1
• "Ländlerischer" Dance D major WoO 11,2
• "Ländlerischer" Dance D major WoO 11,3
• "Ländlerischer" Dance D major WoO 11,4
• "Ländlerischer" Dance D major WoO 11,5
• "Ländlerischer" Dance D major WoO 11,6
• "Ländlerischer" Dance D major WoO 11,7
• 12 German Dances WoO 13
• German Dance D major WoO 13,1
• German Dance B flat major WoO 13,2
• German Dance G major WoO 13,3
• German Dance D major WoO 13,4
• German Dance F major WoO 13,5
• German Dance B flat major WoO 13,6
• German Dance D major WoO 13,7
• German Dance G major WoO 13,8
• German Dance E flat major WoO 13,9
• German Dance C major WoO 13,10
• German Dance A major WoO 13,11
• German Dance D major WoO 13,12
• 6 "Ländlerische" Dances WoO 15
• Allemande A major WoO 81
• Minuet E flat major WoO 82
• 6 Ecossaises WoO 83
• Waltz E flat major WoO 84
• Waltz D major WoO 85
• Ecossaise E flat major WoO 86
• Appendix: 7 Contra Dances from WoO 14