미뉴에트 사장조 (Minuets, WoO 10)

The Minuet in G major, WoO 10, No. 2, is the second of the Six Minuets, WoO 10, by Ludwig van Beethoven. The set was published in Vienna in 1796 as a work for solo piano and is presumed to date to Beethoven’s early Viennese period, c. 1795. The Minuet in G major, No. 2, has become well-known independently of the rest of the set, due to its use as a pedagogical work for beginner pianists, and for its use in various theatre and film scores, notably Meredith Wilson’s Broadway musical The Music Man (1957), in which the piece forms a plot point. The original scoring of the minuets is uncertain. The autograph manuscript is lost, but the first published edition is a keyboard version (on the title page, the set is described as VI Menuetten für das Clavier). Leopold Sonnleithner (1797–1873, an Austrian music writer and member of a Viennese musical family connected to Beethoven’s circle) believed that the minuets may have originally been orchestral dances, which were subsequently arranged for piano. However, no orchestral parts or orchestral autograph source is known to exist.