Irish Songs, WoO 153-6
Irish Songs, WoO 153-5
Irish Songs, WoO 153, 4
Irish Songs, WoO 153-2
Sunday, April 18, 2021
The second song from Beethoven's WoO 153 is "No riches from his scanty store", in which the young woman tells of the anxiety and sorrow while her man is gone in search of money.
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Irish Songs, WoO 152, 22-25
Irish Songs, WoO 152, 18-21
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Beethoven’s personal touch is evident throughout his folksong settings, giving many of the songs preludes and postludes that were likely not present in the originals. His publisher, George Thomson, requested several times that Beethoven simplify the instrumentation, which Beethoven rejected out of hand, saying, “Unfortunately, I am not able to fulfill your request. I am not accustomed to retouching my compositions.”
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Today we have numbers 13 through 17 of Beethoven’s Irish Songs, WoO 152. Two of them were set to poems by Rabbie Burns: “Musing on the roaring ocean” and “In vain to this desert my fate I deplore”.
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