Rage Over a Lost Penny

The "Rondo Alla ingharese quasi un capriccio" in G major, Op.

This title appears on the autograph manuscript, but not in Beethoven's hand, and has been attributed to his friend Anton Schindler.

[2] The performance time runs between five and six minutes; the tempo of the piece is Allegro vivace (= 132–160).

[3] Robert Schumann wrote of the work that "it would be difficult to find anything merrier than this whim...

It is the most amiable, harmless anger, similar to that felt when one cannot pull a shoe from off the foot," citing the work as an instance of Beethoven's earthliness against those who exult in a transcendental image of the composer.