The “Complete” Beethoven


#Beethoven250 Day 31
Variations on a Swiss Air for Harp or Piano (WoO 64), 1792?

These variations were written for performance on either harp or piano. Here’s a wonderfully bucolic rendition on harp by Emanuela Battigelli in a shrine on Lake Como.

#Beethoven250 Day 31
Variations on a Swiss Air for Harp or Piano (WoO 64), 1792?

A young student at a Prague art school demonstrates that these variations have a somewhat different atmosphere when played on modern-day piano rather than a harp.