Adieu to the Piano

[Larry Rupp]

I play a piece of music called Adieu to the Piano which is supposedly bt Beethoven. It sound and plays like Beethoven, but I have been unable to find this piece on any listing of B's compositions. The sheet music I have has no opus number and does not have a date of composition. I would appreciate anything anyone could tell me about this piece.

[Sorrano]

Originally posted by Larry Rupp:
I play a piece of music called Adieu to the Piano which is supposedly bt Beethoven. It sound and plays like Beethoven, but I have been unable to find this piece on any listing of B's compositions. The sheet music I have has no opus number and does not have a date of composition. I would appreciate anything anyone could tell me about this piece.

I've got a couple of different versions of this, myself (as if it needed to be made any simpler) and I can check and see if my copies have any type of catologue identifiers. It is likely that the piece is not by Beethoven, but attributed to him.

[Chris]

There is another thread about this somewhere - use the search function to try and locate it. I believe we established that the piece was not actually by Beethoven.

[~Immortal Beloved~]

It could chopin or Lizst. I have no idea about this piece.

[PDG]

Perhaps a movement from the Adieu Sonata, Op. 81a??

[Peter]

Originally posted by PDG:
Perhaps a movement from the Adieu Sonata, Op. 81a??

I think anyone capable of playing this piece would know its name and composer!

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'Man know thyself'

[Larry Rupp]

I have learned from another discussion group I participate in the following re Adieau to the Piano:

In "The Pianist's Guide to Standard Teaching nd Performance Literature" by Jane Mcgrath (Alfred Publishing, ISBN 088284-655-8), it discusses Adieu to the Piano in F Major Anh. 15 and says that Thayer, B's first biographer I believe, considered this piece to be B's last composition for the piano and he is the one who named it "Adieu". The fact that this piece has an Anhang number, as I understand it, means the piece cannot be definitely confirmed as by Beethoven.

Larry Rupp

[PDG]

By the by, anhang is German for appendix.