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My wife heard a piece on the radio by Beethoven yesterday. It was called
"Six Easy Variations on a Swiss Air in F." When she told me about it, I was
surprised that I had never heard of it. I went through my several discs
that include Beethoven Variations, and I couldn't find it. I went to the
online lists of works (both with and without opus numbers), and I couldn't
find anything with that exact title. In the WoO list, there were several
entries titled "Variations for piano, " so I suppose that it could have
been one of those. Does anyone know anything about this little piece:
history, publication, good recording(s)?
Thanks in advance.
John Halbrooks
[From the Beethoven page at Classical Net we find:
6 Variations on a Swiss Air in F Major, WoO. 64 (1793)
They are relatively rarely recorded, but these variations are included
in the Vox set of the complete (?) piano music played by Brendel which
includes many of these less well-known works, also recommended at
Classical Net. -Dave]
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