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216 pieces: Beethoven's Fifth for four hands, Bach from the Notebook, and Schumann

For the first time there are built-in pieces for four hands: three excerpts from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 where you choose Primo or Secondo. They are joined by seven pieces from the Notebook of 1725 and four from Schumann's Album for the Young. All 14 are optional pieces on levels 4 to 8.

By Klaus Stangl

The repertoire ladder at level 4 in the German interface, with piece cards (picture from 28 October; the new pieces are not on it yet)
The repertoire ladder at level 4 in the German interface, with piece cards (picture from 28 October; the new pieces are not on it yet)

Klavissimo now has 216 built-in pieces. There are 14 new optional pieces, including the first ones for four hands.

Beethoven's Fifth for four hands

The three pieces follow the four-hand arrangement in a Leipzig print of 1879. The Andante theme is the short way in; the whole Andante con moto and the exposition of the first movement follow. Before you play, choose Primo or Secondo under “You play:”, and the app plays the other part. All three are on level 6, set by the harder part.

Seven pieces from the Notebook of 1725

They come from the Bach-Gesellschaft edition: “Bist du bei mir”, BWV 508, by Stölzel, here with the words under the notes; the marches BWV Anh. 124 and Anh. 127 by C. P. E. Bach; the March, BWV Anh. 131, by Johann Christian Bach; a minuet by Böhm; and the Polonaise, BWV Anh. 119, and the Minuet, BWV Anh. 121, whose composer is unknown. They are on levels 4 to 6.

Four pieces by Schumann

From the Album for the Young, op. 68, come the New Year's Eve Song and the Song of the Italian Mariners on level 7, and the Theme No. 34 and “Echoes from the Theatre” on level 8.

Czerny's exercises

The 13 pieces from op. 599 now follow a different edition. As a result ten of them have new slurs, and No. 12 has a different note in two bars.

Levels and tempo

You don't need any of the new pieces to complete a level. The tempo in Klavissimo is a suggestion; for the exposition and the Andante it is slower than the print gives. Change it with the tempo slider.