Brendel plays Rondo a Capriccio, in G major, Op. 129

Alfred Brendel plays Lv. Beethoven s Rondo a Capriccio, in G major, Op. 129, nicknamed Rage over a lost penny (Die Wut über den verlorenen Groschen) by Beethoven s biographer Anton Schindler. Although the piece was written in 1795, when Beethoven was only 25, and Beethoven himself played the Rondo in 1798, the manuscript was found only after his death in 1827, and was first published in 1828 by Anton Diabelli (he of the variations), who took great pains to convince the public the manuscript was