Te Solo Adoro, Canon WoO 186

"Te solo adoro", Two-voice canon WoO 186 (June, 1824). Beethoven wrote several canons on this text, including Hess 263 and 264. While the Deutsche Grammophon Complete Beethoven Edition has a recording of this canon listed under WoO 186, the recording is in fact of the version Hess 264. The same recording is similarly misidentified on the Berlin Classics Unknown Beethoven vol. 2 set. The actual canon WoO 186 has apparently never been recorded. Hess indicates that there is yet another setting of these words, but the condition of the pencil writing is completely indecipherable.[An alert visitor in 2024 reminds us that WoO 186 has now been recorded. It appears, along with Hess 263 and 264, in the Naxos Complete Beethoven Edition and the Warner Beethoven: The Complete Works. See our Seldom-Heard pages under these compositions for details.]

WoO: 186

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