Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Song in G major: "An Laura"; "Freud’ umblühe dich auf allen Wegen" (c. 1790)

Biamonti 27, WoO 112, Hess 128
Very CPE Bach, ABA: a sentimentality melody comprises the A section and an emotional outburst of recitative, the B. There is also a curious rangy piano interlude between sections. The original manuscript, discovered in 1911, was destroyed when someone, set off an incendiary device in the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn in 1960. Glauert (in the Cambridge companion to Beethoven) suggests that the melody strains against the vocal line - I would agree with this, I found it uncommonly difficult to work through.
IMSLP
Beethovenhaus

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