Walter Meyer originally asked:

>>I replied to Margaret's response to my question before I read Joyce's.
>>What was WoO 16?  A work for solo instrument?  Ensemble?  Voice?

To which Joyce Maier responded:

>Some dances, not very important, a trifle.

Not great works, certainly, but tunes that may be recognizable.  WoO 16
is a set of twelve so-called Ecossaise (Scottish dances) for piano which
were advertised for sale in 1807/1808.  In fact, most of the dances are
arrangements of tunes by Beethoven, such as main the theme from the first
movement of the First Symphony.  More information can be gleaned here (do
a search for WoO 16):

   http://www.unheardbeethoven.org/

Willem, responsible for the MIDI file of this work, gives a list of the
sources for all the dance movements.  He, however, doesn't give a source
from which the information comes; you may want to e-mail him for that
information.

In another post from this thread, Joyce wrote:

>These last 20 years I've done my utmost to write a reliable [biography on
>Beethoven] and it can be read on my website, but who reads Dutch?

Have you considered publishing this biography in the traditional medium of
pressed and bound sheets of papyrus? I'd be interested in a copy (if it
were also in English).

Mark K. Ehlert