Beethoven the inventorIn the collective consciousness, when we talk about piano, the name of Beethoven is associated with the monument of the 32 sonatas - they have been sufficiently erected as a sort of New Testament compared to the Old one that would have been Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier!For several decades, the one who also composed the Letter to Elise nevertheless continued to devote himself to the bagatelles, these "little nothings" which, in reality, mattered a lot to him. It must be acknowledged that in this area too, Beethoven laid the foundations of pianistic miniature.