Kuhlau question to help identify a work
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:22 am
I think I may have asked this before- very sorry! Library of Congress has, published by Willig in 1885 and scanned by the LoC,
a "celebrated piano sonata" in B-flat major by Kuhlau, edited by the Baltimore-resident (German?) composer Albert Beuter, that looks like it almost might only possibly be opus 52 no.2 - if, that is,
(1) it really is by Kuhlau
(2) it really was originally in B-flat before Beuter's edition, say...
(3) it really was originally a piano sonata (not a sonatina, flute sonata, trio, etc.)
It doesn't seem to match any other B-flat sonata in the Kuhlau worklist, with or without opus number- all the others seem to have been scanned in by e.g. the Danish Royal Library, as has a divertimention for piano solo in B-flat without opus that might have matched but doesn't. Does anyone have a copy of Opus 52 no.2 in B-flat major and some information (a scan, preferably, but tempo indications, incipits, etc. ? ) so that I might compare the Beuter edition with it? Thanks!
(Allegro con brio and Rondo scherzando in B-flat)
a "celebrated piano sonata" in B-flat major by Kuhlau, edited by the Baltimore-resident (German?) composer Albert Beuter, that looks like it almost might only possibly be opus 52 no.2 - if, that is,
(1) it really is by Kuhlau
(2) it really was originally in B-flat before Beuter's edition, say...
(3) it really was originally a piano sonata (not a sonatina, flute sonata, trio, etc.)
It doesn't seem to match any other B-flat sonata in the Kuhlau worklist, with or without opus number- all the others seem to have been scanned in by e.g. the Danish Royal Library, as has a divertimention for piano solo in B-flat without opus that might have matched but doesn't. Does anyone have a copy of Opus 52 no.2 in B-flat major and some information (a scan, preferably, but tempo indications, incipits, etc. ? ) so that I might compare the Beuter edition with it? Thanks!
(Allegro con brio and Rondo scherzando in B-flat)