Margaret Mikulska wrote in response to John Halbrooks <[log in to unmask]>: >>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. [...] > >These Variations were written for piano or harp - probably the only work by >LvB for harp. Yes, but he gave a not unimportant role to the harp in his unfinished music to Friedrich Duncker's play "Leonore Prohaska" (composed in 1815). The second part is a romance for soprano and harp, called "Es blueht eine Blume" and it's beautiful music, somewhat Schubert-like. >The date of composition is not known; ca. 1790 is Kinsky's >educated guess. Published ca. 1798. No mention in Beethoven's letters. And may I add: WoO.64 and published by Simrock in Bonn. Regards, Joyce Maier ([log in to unmask])