The present edition of Twelve Divertisments, consisting of Marches, Waltzes and Rondos for the Piano Forte by Daniel Steibelt, with an Accompaniment for the Tambourine likely represents the sort of pieces that the Steibelts included in their concert tours in Europe at the turn of the nineteenth century.

As far as the tambourine parts go, they are simpler in style than other works for tambourine from this period such as Joseph Dale’s Grand Sonata, Op.18, and as such they would have been intend...