A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Teutsche

by George Grove

TEUTSCHE. Mozart's way of spelling Deutsche, i.e. Deutsche Tänze—little German waltzes in 3-8 or 3-4, of which he, Beethoven, and Schubert, wrote many. For Schubert's 'Atzenbrucker Deutsche, July 1821,' see vol. iii. p. 334b. The famous 'Trauer-Waltzer,' sometimes called 'Le Désir' (op. 9, no. 2), for long attributed to Beethoven, is a Teutsch. [Allemande, no. 2, vol. i. p. 55 b.]

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