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Beautiful! I am happy to have sent you the score and that it is published with mp3... I already have some additions to send you regarding this composer (which I will send via email) who is changing his name from Cornetti to Cornet, once he arrives in Vienna!
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And here is the first news about Luigi.... Always special!!!
Alessandro Cornetti, who lived in Vienna around 1790, was a composer, tenor, and singing teacher. In 1785, he wrote the Cantata Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia K 477a together with Mozart and Salieri, based on a text by the court poet Lorenzo Da Ponte. According to the custom of most artists living in Vienna during that period, he changed his surname from Cornetti to Cornet to make it sound more Austrian.
He is listed in the Neues historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler,
welches Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken musikalischer Schriftsteller, berühmter Komponisten, Sänger, Meister auf Instrumenten, kunstvoller Dilettanten, Musikverleger, auch Orgel- und Instrumentenmacher, älterer und neuerer Zeit, aus allen Nationen enthält. Leipzig 1812 , Volume 1 , page 791, where it is reproduced and reports as his own work six little duets.
................... Luigi, you are a marvel!!!
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The Kafka Miscellany returns online, deeply renewed, perhaps the greatest work to have appeared on the site. Currently, there are 254 musical examples; in the near future, we will gradually insert all the others.
The great collection preserved at the British Library and commonly called the “Kafka Miscellany” consists of individual pages of musical notes, bifolios, and notebooks, totaling 124 sheets dating from the years between 1786 and 1799. Beethoven used it, according to his custom, as a framework for notes on works that he would complete or intended to complete, as well as a notebook for notes and sketches. In this authentic “mine of thought,” countless works, notes, unknown pieces, and other notations of various kinds are packed.
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Finally available on the website (http://www.lvbeethoven.it/unv16/) is the precious creature and its new adventure: the Macbeth overture, Unv. 16 – Biamonti 454, sketched for an opera with a libretto by Collin, from Shakespeare's tragedy, in 1808. This work is one of the cornerstones of Beethoven research and consequently is one of the very reasons for the existence of lvbeethoven.it and everything I have done throughout all these years.
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Through his personal struggle, Beethoven became one of humanity's heroes and thanks to his triumph, he was – and is – one of its prophets. This is why scholars seek unfinished works that are possible to complete. The musicologists and composers who, through their efforts, have cast new gazes upon Beethoven's genius, are the musical heroes of the modern era.
It is a small excerpt from the page dedicated to Op. 16, and it is the answer as to why no other composer - including Bach and Mozart - has been able to attract so much interest from musicology and musicians. Everything concerning Beethoven, even the most insignificant and sometimes untrue things, has its reference texts, and the only gap regarding him - the countless sketches, drafts, exercises - is narrowing, although much ground still needs to be covered.
From Gustav Nottebohm - the pioneer - to websites such as unheardbeethoven.org and, above all, ours, lvbeethoven.it, passing through many musicologists and Beethoven scholars who, after Willy Hess and Giovanni Biamonti, starting from the 70s of the last century, began to tear open the sky over this immense Beethovenian musical capital.
May all this be welcome because it demonstrates that the hunger for Beethoven is still great and, today more than ever, we need this enormous genius of heroic music, certainly but, even more importantly, absolutely visionary.
And this to continue to hope and believe that even utopia is possible, despite everything.
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Sigismund Fortuné François Thalberg: Transcriptions, arrangements and fantasies on works by Beethoven: http://www.lvbeethoven.it/thalberg/ Souvenirs de Beethoven, Grand Fantasia Opus 39 for piano on Symphony number 7 Opus 92 and Adelaide, transcription for solo piano Opus 70 from the Lied for voice and piano Opus 46.
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Absolute genius, taken from us too soon by premature death, Max Reger wrote variations for piano in 1904 on a theme by Beethoven (incidentally from the theme of the Bagatelle for piano Opus 119 number 11). http://www.lvbeethoven.it/reger/ The same variations appeared in an orchestral version, charged with a poignant melancholy and a surprising modernity.
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Great Max Reger
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Variations for two pianos four hands on a theme by Beethoven Opus 35 (1874) http://www.lvbeethoven.it/c-saint-saens/
By the way, since it is never mentioned, the theme is taken from the minuet trio (Moderato e grazioso) of the Piano Sonata in E-flat major Opus 31 number 3, and the composition consists of an introduction, eight variations with a fugue as well as an extensive final coda.
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On this page you can listen to the rondo in its original version with piano accompaniment, with Kreisler himself on the violin; its orchestral transcription and see the YouTube video of the Violin Concerto Opus 61 with the composer on solo violin playing the cadenzas written specifically for this concerto. http://www.lvbeethoven.it/fritz_kreisler/
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Finally, a new complete book is available in the dedicated section: http://www.lvbeethoven.it/bibliografia-libricompleti/ Bilancioni Giuseppe - Beethoven's deafness (considerations of an otologist) - A. Formiggini publisher in Rome 1921 downloadable here : http://www.lvbeethoven-music.it/Libr…/Bilancioni_Sordita.pdf
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994 independent pages, but these are certainly among the largest research pieces and in WP on the site: Beethoven and Viganò – a neoclassical partnership:
1) “La Vestale” Great Tragic Ballo invented and staged at the R. Teatro alla Scala by Mr. Salvatore Viganò
2) “Collection of various and best pieces of music for Forte Piano for the Prometheus Ballo” Invented and staged at the R° Teatro alla Scala by Mr. Salvatore Viganò http://www.lvbeethoven.it/articoli-vigano-varj-pezzi-di-musica/
And obviously we have also remade the corresponding pages of Opus 43 http://www.lvbeethoven.it/opus043/ and Egmont Opus 84 http://www.lvbeethoven.it/opus084/
The site thanks Graziano Denini and Luigi Bellofatto from the bottom of its heart.
