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Sextet
This work bears the designation Opus 71
Contents
General Info
Year: 1796 / 1810
Duration: c. 20:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Edition Peters
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $38.50;
For availability information, see Discussion tab, above.
Movements
1. Adagio - Allegro (E♭ major) – 9:50
2. Adagio (B♭ major) – 3:40
3. Minuet. Quasi Allegretto - Trio (E♭ major) – 2:40
4. Rondo. Allegro (E♭ major)- 3:40
Instrumentation
Full Score
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Sextet in E flat major, Op. 71, scored for pairs of clarinets, horns and bassoons, was written in 1796, a further example of Beethoven’s interest in wind instruments at this time.
The first movement starts with a slow ten-bar introduction, after which the clarinet leads into the first subject of a sonata-allegro movement. The second movement is a B flat major Adagio, led initially by the first bassoon, and the Minuet, marked Quasi allegretto, is started by the horns, with a Trio in which the second clarinet enters in imitation of its fellow. The work ends with a lively Rondo, with duly contrasting episodes.
- Program Note from liner notes of Naxos CD Beethoven: Music for Winds
Commercial Discography
- Audio CD: Passionata Wind Ensemble - 2017
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Ensemble Coeur de Roseau (Tokyo) – 4 May 2018
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Allegretto (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Longfield) (1812/2011)
- Europa (Flex instrumentation) (with Charpentier; arr. Haan) (2009)
- The Great Beethoven Bonanza (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Jones) (2015)
- March of the Guards (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Glover) (1805/2019)
- Ode to Joy (Flex instrumentation (arr. Brand) (1824/2000(?))
- Ode to Joy (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1824/2020)
- Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1804-1808/2014)
- Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral" Selections (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kanayama) (1808/)
- Variations on a Motive of Beethoven (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ring) (1826/2020)
All Wind Works
- Allegretto (ar. Longfield) (1812/2011)
- Allegretto (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Longfield) (1812/2011)
- The Allegretto from Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 (arr. Evans) (1812/2013)
- Coriolan Overture (tr. Hanna)
- Drei zapfenstreiche
- Écossaise for Military Band (arr. Stalter) (1810/2015)
- Egmont Overture (arr. Winterbottom) (1810/1924)
- Egmont Overture (tr. Hindsley) (1810/197-?)
- Egmont Overture (tr. McLain) (1810/12015)
- Egmont Overture (arr. Tobani) (1810/1900)
- Eroica (arr. Ripley) (1804/1900)
- Europa (Flex instrumentation) (with Charpentier; arr. Haan) (2009)
- The European Anthem (arr. Karajan) (1824/1972)
- Finale to "Symphony No. 5" (arr. Isaac) (1804-1808/1965)
- Finale to "Symphony No. 5" (adapt. Longfield) (1804-1808/2020)
- First and Second Movements from Symphony No. 5 in C minor (arr. Godfrey) (1804-1808/1921)
- Five Short Pieces for Wind Ensemble (arr. Reynolds) (1975)
- For Elise (arr. Long) (1810/1992)
- Für Elise (arr. Hautvast) (1810/2020)
- Für Elise (arr. Korson) (1810/1867/20--?)
- Grand Serenade (arr. Crusell; ed. Rogers) (1800/2004)
- The Great Beethoven Bonanza (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Jones) (2015)
- The Heavens Resound
- Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (arr. Kirkland)
- Leonore Overture No. 3 (tr. Hindsley) (1806/197-?)
- March in B-flat. See: Marsch
- March in F (arr. Dunnigan) (1809/1995)
- March of the Guards (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Glover) (1805/2019)
- Marsch (c. 1798/1865)
- Military March (Beethoven) (adapt. Greissle) (1945)
- Military March in D (ed. Bourgeois) (1816/2003)
- Octet (1792)
- Ode to Joy (arr. Barrett) (1824/1965/1995)
- Ode to Joy (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Brand) (1824/2000(?))
- Ode to Joy (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1824/2020)
- Piano Concerto No. 1 (arr. Odom) (1795/2019)
- Presto from "Symphony No. 7" (tr. Thompson) (1811/2018)
- Prometheus Overture (arr. Barnes) (1801/1963)
- Prometheus Overture (arr. Slocum) (1801/1987)
- Quintet in E-flat Major, Op 16
- Rocking 4 Elise (arr. Berger) (1810/2014)
- Rondino (1793/195-?)
- Scherzo and Finale from the Fifth Symphony (arr. Godfrey) (1804-1808/1920)
- Scherzo from "Symphony No 9" (arr. Bocook) (1824/2004)
- Sextet (1796)
- Siegessinfonie
- Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21: Mvt. 1 (arr. Yu) (1800/2014?)
- Symphony No. 1 Op. 21 (tr. Schmitt; ed. Marlow) (1800/1817/2007)
- Symphony No. 3 (tr. Moehlmann; ed. Rogers) (1804/2020)
- Symphony No. 5 in C minor (arr. Godfrey)
- First and Second Movements (arr. Godfrey). See: First and Second Movements from Symphony No. 5 in C minor
- Third and Fourth Movements (arr. Godfrey). See: Scherzo and Finale from the Fifth Symphony
- Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Stanton) (1804-1808/2014)
- Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral" Selections (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kanayama) (1808/)
- Symphony No. 9 (tr. Vives) (1822-1824/2013)
- Three Equale
- Marcia alla turca (arr. Rondeau) (1809/2011)
- Turkish March (arr. Curnow) (1809/2001)
- Variations on a Motive of Beethoven (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Ring) (1826/2020)
- The Yorck Marche. See: March in F
Resources
- Beethoven, L. [19--]. Sextette: Opus 71, 81b [score]. Edition Peters: Leipzig, Ger.
- List of Compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wikipedia Accessed 23 May 2020