Grande polonaise pour le pianoforte a quatre mains : tiree de l'Oeuvre 56
Polonaise
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Polonaise
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Themes & character
Four-hand arrangement·From a larger work·Domestic music-making·Polonaise rhythm
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- Form
- Polonaise
About the piece
A polonaise arranged for piano four hands from a larger Beethoven work, of the kind publishers produced in enormous quantity throughout the nineteenth century.
Before recordings, four-hand arrangements were the principal way people came to know orchestral and chamber music. Symphonies, overtures and concertos were all reduced for two players at one piano, and a great deal of the era's musical literacy was built at the domestic keyboard rather than in the concert hall.
The composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770–1827
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer, conductor, and pianist. Regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, he was mentored during the Classical period, and his musical style was a key driver of the transition to Romantic music, and the expansion of instrumental forms such as the symphony, the piano sonata and the string quartet. His compositions have attracted extraordinary casual and scholarly interest, and remain among the most performed in the world.
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