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Twelve German Dances, WoO 13.
Dance music pure and simple, WoO 13 was also written to please the untrained ear. This is good music, because it is exactly what it pretends to be, no more and no less. To be dismissive of it is to take a far too intellectual approach to music. Music is so much more than only an exercise for the brain. One may be correct in saying that it doesn't require the genius of a Beethoven to compose music like this; nevertheless the fingerprints of a real master can be detected in every of these little dances.
Written between 1792 and 1797, the version for orchestra is lost. Only the piano version, in the hand of a copyist, has survived. Like the other sets of dances, WoO 7, WoO 8, WoO 14 and possibly WoO 10, it was intended to provide music for the parties of the Viennese high society.
In dance music the attention is only partially focused on the music, it therefore requires the greatest simplicity in harmony and melody; a fact which is proven most cruelly every night in our discos. But Beethoven is too fine a musician to provide only a beat with some inarticulate noise. Within the highly confined structure of these German Dances, he gives just sufficient contrast to hold our attention, so that it is possible to listen to them even as absolute music.
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