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Re: Question - Beethoven Quintet for Piano and Winds

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2016-04-19 06:52

elmo -

Beethoven met Mozart and was very impressed by his Quintet for Piano and Winds. He wrote his own Quintet in imitation of and tribute to Mozart. I've heard both the Mozart and the Beethoven in arrangements for piano and strings and think they don't work well. The arpeggiated horn passages in particular get lost on strings.

While [forte]piano and winds articulate differently, I think that it's essential to agree on how phrases are played and to match what the others are playing.

brycon -

I learned the 1+1+2 or 2+2+4 pattern from singing early music. Josquin des Prez used it a lot.

I think of the World War I song:

And then we'll bury the hatchet.
Bury the hatchet.
Bury the hatchet in the Kaiser's head.

When I come across a "sentence" or "period," I remind myself or anyone I'm coaching to bury the hatchet.

Ken Shaw

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