Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhelm

Wiki entry: Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg

International Music Score Library Project [IMSLP] entry: Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg

F. W. Marpurg [1718-95] was a German composer, critic and theorist. He was friendly with many figures of the Enlightenment, including Voltaire, d'Alembert and Rameau.

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Die Kleine Seiltanzerin MIDI   harpsichord  
This short rondo is also known as La Voltigeuse, translated as The Ballerina or The Little Rope Dancer, meaning a trapeze artist or a tightrope walker or various other gymnastic possibilities. It is marked as a Rondo with two couplets, to be played Allegro Spiritoso.
Sequenced in 2021 from a collection The German Harpsichordists, edited by Pietro Montani, and published [undated] by G. Ricordi & Co (London) Ltd. The ornamentation and the staccato performance follows that edition; the registration is mine, and I have added some minor variations to the returns of the rondo.


Sequencing: Copyright © Andy Walker, 2021. You may use all my work freely for private purposes; commercial use is permitted only with my permission.

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