A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mesto

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From volume 2 of the work.

1684372A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — MestoGeorge GroveJ. A. Fuller-Maitland

MESTO, 'sadly'; a term used three times by Beethoven, in the pianoforte sonatas, op. 10, no. 3, and op. 59, and in the slow movement of Quartet op. 18, no. 7. The slow movement of the first of these is called Largo e mesto, and of the second and third Adagio molto e mesto. It is also used by Chopin in the Mazurkas, op. 33, nos. 1 and 4.

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