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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-10-10 22:44:12
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[…] to Mozart that exists, for example, with the op. 16 quintet for piano and winds, so our vote is for genre creation. In the event, it was created at the behest of clarinetist Joseph Beer for a set of variations on the enormously popular aria “Pria ch’io I’impegno” from Joseph Weigl’s opera L’amor marinaro ossia il corsaro, an aria that, like Verdi’s “La donna è mobile,” became a pop hit on its own. The nickname “Gassenhauer Trio” given to the Beethoven work means just that: pop hit trio (Gasse is the word for alley, used musically just like Tin Pan Alley). It is one of his most genial pieces (it is reported that Beethoven groused later about how he had pandered to public taste in the third movement, which was the requested set of variations), and it gets a lot of play, since performers love it too. Vigor coupled with […]
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