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Solfeggietto H 220

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

What's this piece like?
Solfeggietto is a short solo keyboard piece in C minor. It is probably the most known piece by C.P.E. Bach and is widely used in pedagogical methods. The piece is to be executed fast, with a "Prestissimo" tempo marking and it's a great exercise to develop fast fingering and light articulation.
Who's this piece for?
This piece will impress your audience and give you the motivation you need to move on to even harder repertoire.
1-2 pages
Baroque
C minor

MOOD: Flashy and fast.

TECHNIQUE: Right hand, scales, broken chords and crossing hand.

Ranking
Equivalent to RCM level 8
Equivalent to ABRSM level 7
Equivalent to Suzuki book 5
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1762

C.W. Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice premiered in Vienna.

1762

Mozart toured Europe as six-year-old prodigy.

1764

A French trading company establishes a trading post on the Mississippi River, to be known as St. Louis.

1764

Jean-Philippe Rameau died.

1766

Solfeggietto was composed by C.P.E. Bach at the age of 52 years old.

1768

The French explorer Louis Bougainville "discovers" Tahiti and claims it for King Louis XV of France, though it had already been sighted by Europeans.

1769

Napoleon Bonaparte was born.

1770

English explorer James Cook sights the East Coast of Australia. He lands at Botany Bay and claims the land for England.

1770

Ludwig Van Beethoven was born.

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