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Beethoven / Shifrin / Chen - Music for Winds

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Format: CD
Label: NXS
Rel. Date: 10/25/2019
UPC: 747313394272

Music for Winds
Artist: Beethoven / Shifrin / Chen
Format: CD
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Music for wind ensemble was a regular part of entertainment in Beethoven's day, and his Octet was composed for the skilled players in the service of his patron, the Archbishop-Elector in Bonn. The charming and skillfully written Sextet is also 'from my early things and, what's more, was written in one night'; impressing a critic of the time 'by it's splendid melodies, leisurely harmonic flow, and wealth of new and surprising ideas.' Wind partitas often opened with a March, and the Rondino was originally intended as the Finale to the Octet, two suitable pieces to complete this fashionable Beethoven soiree.
        
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