Fox, You've Stolen the Goose

• Price: 67.08 USD

• Instrument: Chamber Music
• Instrumentation: 2 Violins, Viola & Cello
• Sub Category: String Quartet
• Composer: Beethoven, Ludwig van, Birtel, Wolfgang
• Publisher: Schott
• Publisher Code: 49018019
• Product #: BIRTE001



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Fox, You've Stolen the Goose published by Schott.

as Ludwig van Beethoven could (possibly) have composed it

What do Beethoven and the well-known German nursery rhyme Fuchs Du Hast die Gans gestohlen (Fox You've Stolen the Goose) have in common? In actual fact, not a lot. Although this song was composed by Ernst Anschutz as early as 1824, so that theoretically Beethoven could have been familiar with the nursery rhyme, there is unfortunately no trace of it in his oeuvre. Nevertheless, situations can occasionally arise which can bring two things together in an unorthodox manner: for example when Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckhardt from the Beethoven house in Bonn had the idea of a performance of Fuchs Du Hast die Gans gestohlen in the style of Beethoven for the occasion of the traditional Bonn Rotary Club roast goose dinner in 2008.
A straight setting of the melody would have been slightly too short, so the arranger had the idea of presenting the theme within the context of a symphony for string quartet: under the heading of each motto, the nursery rhyme would be worked through in four movements. A movement from one of Beethoven's symphonies would provide inspiration for each of these sections:
1. Adagio-Allegro molto vivace, the final movement of the 1st Symphony in C major, Op.21
2. Marcia funebre - Adagio assai, the funeral march from the 3rd Symphony in Eb major, Op.55
3.Allegro, the corresponding 5th Symphony in C minor, Op.67, and in conclusion
4. Presto, the Ode To Joy, the finale of the 9th Symphony D minor, Op.125
It must also be mentioned in passing that additional quotations are interspersed throughout the piece, such as Carl Maria Weber's Huntsmen's Chorus from Der Freischutz or Beethoven's Fur Elise.