The Clementi Sonatinas

[hixmix]

Deceptively simple. Even old Beethoven, himself, gave up trying to play them.

Any opinions?

[Wil Davis]

Originally posted by hixmix
Deceptively simple. Even old Beethoven, himself, gave up trying to play them.

Any opinions?

...but the question is why did he give up on them? Were they:

(a) too difficult

(b) too easy (L v B didn't feel challenged)

(c) sounded awful (so why should L v. B even bother, considering he had a set of 32 of his own, most of which are pretty darned good...)

(d) perhaps he couldn't hear, and missed the whole point of them anyway...

I think we should be told...

- Wil