Bagatelle (music)

The Bagatelle (French bagatell [e ] for " little thing, love affair " ) refers to a small work of instrumental music, mostly for piano.

The throughout the music world has long naturalized term goes back to the French composer Francois Couperin. Since then called cyclically unbound individual pieces Bagatelle. The most famous are those of Ludwig van Beethoven: Op 33 (1803 ), op 119 (1823 ) and Op 126 (1825 ). In the 20th century there are Béla Bartók - for piano, Op 6 (1908 ) - and Anton von Webern with his string quartet, opus 9 (1913 ) have been, who received the label " Bagatelle " again. Is a trifle connected with a tribute, it is called since his sympathy for piano and pump Natias Neutert as a composer and performer in the context of Berlin - European City of Culture has premiered in 1988, specifically as of a sympathy.