The anger over the lost penny

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"The rage over the lost penny" is the popular name of a piano work by Ludwig van Beethoven . The original title is "Alla Ingharese quasi un Capriccio" .

It is the best known of Beethoven's four rondos . The performance is between six and seven minutes.

The subtitle “Rage over the lost penny, let off steam in a capricorn” does not come from Beethoven, but was probably added by Beethoven's secretary and biographer Anton Schindler . And you can definitely interpret the two motifs of the rondo theme - the ascending triad and the subsequent rapid sixteenth note movement - as hopping and gyrating the penny and the repeating chords of the left hand as an "angry" accompaniment.

The original term "alla ingharese" , ie "in the Hungarian way", refers to the liveliness, the temperament and "quasi un capriccio", ie "like a capriccio ", means the moodiness and idiosyncrasy with which the motifs are combined and modified and are surprisingly set in unexpected keys, but in such a way that they always remain recognizable in their basic form and, as befits a rondo , show themselves in their original form in between.

Although this G major rondo has the opus number 129, it is not a late work. Sketch sheets date from the years 1795 to 1798, so Beethoven was around 25 years old when he composed this virtuoso piece , which is still popular today .

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