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Kuhlau, Friedrich : Eight Easy Rondos Op.41

Work Overview

Music ID : 9247
Publication Year:1821
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:rondo
Copyright:Public Domain

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Author : Busk, Gorm

Last Updated: March 12, 2018
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

First Edition Information

Eight Easy Rondos for the Pianoforte, Op. 41, composed by F. Kuhlau, price 1 Reichsthaler, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig, plate number 3715 [=1822], 23 pages, oblong format, lithographed. Advertised on advertising page IV of the May 1822 issue of Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung and in the May 10, 1822 issue of Adresse. A brief review appeared in column 248 of the April 8, 1824 issue of AmZ.

Thematic Origin

The first eight measures of the first theme are an inversion of the theme beginning at measure 19 (with an anacrusis on e', d'). This is the melody of Aline's solo "Enfants de la Provence" (C major), repeated by the chorus in the finale (No. 10) of Act 2 of Henri Montan Berton's (1767-1842) opera Aline, Reine de Golconde. This work, the most famous among his operas, premiered in Paris on September 3, 1803, and was performed 18 times in Hamburg between 1807 and 1810. Kuhlau undoubtedly saw this opera here, and he later recalled it as a work by Mozart. This melody also appears in Kuhlau's work Divertimento on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 126, from around 1820.

Writer: Busk, Gorm

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Allegretto Op.41

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Allegro scherzando Op.41

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Allegro Op.41

Total Performance Time: 2 min 20 sec 

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Allegro Op.41

Total Performance Time: 2 min 20 sec 

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