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Clean up Tag

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I added a clean-up tag today with the comment "A little too much gushing and hyperbole for my taste. This is an encyclopedia and not an advertisement. I don't know enough about the pieces to do them justice myself, so I'm adding a cleanup tag". If we are going to gush, we should cite quotes from other composers, musicians and musicologists. DavidRF 19:05, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not Beethoven's last work for piano

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I consulted the Henle Urtext edition of the Beethoven miscellaneous piano pieces. The last work listed there is a very brief piece written as a souvenir for the visiting Sarah Burney Paine on 27 September 1825, thus a year after the Op. 126 bagatelles (see [1] for helpful discussion of this work).

One might ponder if we should say that Op. 126 is Beethoven's last "major" work for piano, but it competes in "major-ness" with the far more substantial Diabelli Variations, written a year earlier. Better to say nothing, I feel. Opus33 (talk) 15:28, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]