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Ludwig van Beethoven

Rage Over a Lost Penny

The "" in G major, Op. 129 (Italian for "Rondo in the Hungarian i.e. gypsy style, almost a caprice"), is a rondo for piano written by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is better known by the title Rage Over a

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Despite the late opus number, the work’s composition has been dated to between 1795 and 1798. Beethoven left the piece unpublished and incomplete; it was published in 1828 by Anton Diabelli, who obscured the fact that it had been left unfinished. Robert Schumann wrote of the work that “it would be difficult to find anything merrier than this whim… It is the most amiable, harmless anger, similar to that felt when one cannot pull a shoe from off the foot,” citing the work as an instance of Beethoven’s earthliness against those who exult in a transcendental image of the composer. Erwin Schulhoff arranged the work for orchestra.

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Notes Sources *Barry Cooper, gen. ed., The Beethoven Compendium, Ann Arbor, Michigan: Borders Press, 1991, p. 247. .

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Ludwig van Beethoven