Classical Composer: | Beethoven, Ludwig van |
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Work: | Duo for Viola and Cello in E-Flat Major, WoO 32, "Mit 2 obligaten Augengläsern" (With 2 Obbligato Eyeglasses) |
Year Composed: | 1797 |
Instrumentation: | va, vc |
Publishers: |
C.F. Peters Corporation C.F. Peters Leipzig |
Duration: | 00:13:00 |
Period: | Classical (1750-1830) |
Work Category: | Chamber Music |
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The Duet for viola and cello, WoO 32, belongs to this early period of Beethoven’s life in Vienna and was written for his friend Nikolaus Zmeskall von Domanovecz, a competent amateur cellist and a modest composer, an official of the Royal Hungarian Court Chancellery, the weakness of whose eyes brought a joke from Beethoven, and, presumably, the Duett mit zwei Augengläsern (Duet with Two Eyeglasses), seemingly enclosed with a letter of 1798 to Zmeskall. The work opens with a melody for the viola, taken up by the cello in a sonata-form movement. Beethoven seems to have intended a slow movement, which was never written, but the following Minuet, with its B flat major Trio, provides a contrast to the more substantial first movement.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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