A piano arrangement, presumably by Beethoven, of the Ritterballett (Biamonti 29) above. As one might expect, it works just fine on the piano.
Unheard Beethoven has created a midi version.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Ballet Music for Piano: "Ritterballet" (1790-1791)
Biamonti 30, Hess 89
A piano arrangement, presumably by Beethoven, of the Ritterballett (Biamonti 29) above. As one might expect, it works just fine on the piano.
Unheard Beethoven has created a midi version.
A piano arrangement, presumably by Beethoven, of the Ritterballett (Biamonti 29) above. As one might expect, it works just fine on the piano.
Unheard Beethoven has created a midi version.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Ballet Music: "Ritterballet", music for a ballet of knights (1790-1791)
Biamonti 29, WoO 1, Grove 149
The Ritterballet is graced with the distinction of being first among the unassigned, WoO 1 and has thus always held a strange fascination for me. In sound and in point it is an accomplished curiousity. Apparently, Beethoven was asked to create a ballet of sorts during which various regal aristocrats would traipse around in costumes while depicting important elements of the German aristocratic life such as hunting, drinking, dancing. With its initial performance for Count Waldstein on March 6, 1791, it became perhaps the only orchestral music of Beethoven heard in Bonn. The dances are generally pleasant and are linked by a recurring "German Dance."
A portion of the Hunting Dance followed by the German Dance played as well as it may have been played in Bonn:
The Ritterballet is graced with the distinction of being first among the unassigned, WoO 1 and has thus always held a strange fascination for me. In sound and in point it is an accomplished curiousity. Apparently, Beethoven was asked to create a ballet of sorts during which various regal aristocrats would traipse around in costumes while depicting important elements of the German aristocratic life such as hunting, drinking, dancing. With its initial performance for Count Waldstein on March 6, 1791, it became perhaps the only orchestral music of Beethoven heard in Bonn. The dances are generally pleasant and are linked by a recurring "German Dance."
A portion of the Hunting Dance followed by the German Dance played as well as it may have been played in Bonn:
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