Talk:Bagatelles, Op. 126 (Beethoven)

Clean up Tag
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)

Not Beethoven's last work for piano
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 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)