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The rest--or the best--of Beethoven

by James Leonard

posted 7/6/2010

If, as aged piano pedagogues aver, Bach's forty-eight preludes and fugues are the Old Testament of the solo piano repertoire and Beethoven's thirty-two sonatas are its New Testament, then Beethoven's thirty-seven miscellaneous pieces for solo piano are its Apocrypha, those hidden and occult texts that didn't make the final cut.

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