Cabinet item
A mostly small-format masterpiece is referred to as a cabinet piece (“cabinet” in the sense of the princely chambers of curiosities that preceded today's cultural institutes) .
meaning
Workmanship, material value and ideas brought pieces of art into a prince's cabinet of curiosities , a private exhibition space. Even today, cabinet pieces can often be found in private collections rather than in art museums .
In a figurative sense, the acting performance in a theater scene is also referred to as a cabinet play , for example the Viennese language in a production of Was ihr wollt from 2011 by the Burgtheater .
Cabinet pieces like the Emser Depesche belong to the essence of diplomacy .
The diminutive "showpiece" is usually ironically meant, bordering on contempt, that says something like artisanal virtuosity without substance.
music
In classical music , “cabinet pieces” are also masterpieces that use virtuosity as a means to an end. Ease and wit make up their charm .
piano
- 3rd movement of the piano sonata No. 6 (Beethoven)
- Var. X of the Diabelli Variations (Beethoven)
- 2nd movement of the piano sonata No. 3 (Chopin)
- VI and IX, Symphonic Etudes (Schumann)
- Dreams Wirren , Fantasiestücke op.12 (Schumann)
- Intermezzo , op.119 No. 3 in C major by Johannes Brahms
orchestra
- Don Giovanni champagne aria
- Flight of the bumblebee (Rimski-Korsakow)
- Till Eulenspiegel's funny pranks
violin
- 2nd movement of the Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13 by Gabriel Fauré
- 2nd movement of the Sonata in D minor by Claude Debussy
- Gypsy Sages (Sarasate)
