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A '''bagatelle''' (bæɡəˈtel<ref>Oxford Learners Dictionary http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bagatelle?q=bagatelle</ref>) is a short, light, seemingly inconsequential piece of music.  The term in both [[France|French]] and [[Germany|German]] means ''“trifle”'' and first appeared musically in relation to [[François Couperin]] in the late seventeenth/early eighteenth centuries.  

A '''bagatelle''' (bæɡəˈtel<ref>Oxford Learners Dictionary http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bagatelle?q=bagatelle</ref>) is a short, light, seemingly inconsequential piece of music.  The term in both [[France|French]] and [[Germany|German]] means ''“trifle”'' and first appeared musically in relation to [[François Couperin]] in the late seventeenth/early eighteenth centuries.  

[[Beethoven]] wrote three sets of bagatelles - from one of them comes one of the most recognisable pieces of classical music: ''“Fur Elise”''. ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVW8tgGY_w listen on YouTube])  A young [[Camille Saint-Saens]] wrote a set. The Hungarian master, [[Béla Bartók]], in his own unique style, wrote 14 of them, like Saint-Saens, for piano. Turning to other forces, in England, [[William Walton]] wrote  five bagatelles for solo guitar, a work once neglected but now gaining in popularity with an increasing number of recordings - and even a concertante arrangement  – and [[Gerald Finzi]]’s set of six for [[clarinet]] and [[piano]] - later arranged with string orchestra - gives the form a comfortable pastoral feel.  

[[Beethoven]] wrote three sets of bagatelles - from one of them comes one of the most recognisable pieces of classical music: ''“Fur Elise”''. ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVW8tgGY_w listen on YouTube])  A young [[Camille Saint-Saens]] wrote a set. The Hungarian master, [[Béla Bartók]], in his own unique style, wrote 14 of them, like Saint-Saens, for piano. Turning to other forces, in England, [[William Walton]] wrote  five bagatelles for solo guitar, a work once neglected but now gaining in popularity with an increasing number of recordings - and even a concertante arrangement  – and [[Gerald Finzi]]’s set of six for [[clarinet]] and [[piano]] - later arranged with string orchestra - gives the form a comfortable pastoral feel.  

One of the most popular [[chamber music|chamber]] works of all time is [[Antonin Dvorak]]’s  Bagatelles (op.47) for [[harmonium]], 2 [[violin]]s and [[cello]]; simple, charming and cheerful music that is a fine example of what can be called “household music” – pieces written for a particular group of friends or family using the instruments available to them. This particular tune has been sung by youth groups (church and otherwise) as a semi-scatalogical refrain while travelling.

One of the most popular [[chamber music|chamber]] works of all time is [[Antonin Dvorak]]’s  Bagatelles (op.47) for [[harmonium]], 2 [[violin]]s and [[cello]]; simple, charming and cheerful music that is a fine example of what can be called “household music” – pieces written for a particular group of friends or family using the instruments available to them. This particular tune has been sung by youth groups (church and otherwise) as a semi-scatalogical refrain while travelling.