![]() THE BACKSTORY Beethoven moved from Bonn to Vienna in 1792 to study with Franz Josef Haydn, the most eminent living composer. Although Beethoven surely improvised the first-movement cadenza at the premiere, he did write out a suitable cadenza for this concerto in 1809, and it is that cadenza that plays at these concerts INSTRUMENTATION: 2 each of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, and trumpets, with timpani and strings. ![]() Maria João Pires was soloist, Herbert Blomstedt conducted José Iturbi was soloist, Pierre Monteux conducted. US PREMIERE: December 8, 1842, at a concert of the Musical Fund Society in Boston J.L. WORLD PREMIERE: April 5, 1803, at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien ![]() The score bears a dedication to Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia That effort also proved abortive, and he seems to not have finished the piece until a year later, in 1803. Then Beethoven set the project aside, returning to it only in 1802. The first movement was essentially complete by April 2, 1800. Bonn, then an independent electorateĬOMPOSED: Ideas for what would become Beethoven’s C minor Piano Concerto began appearing in his sketchbooks as early as 1796, but he didn’t begin composing the work in earnest until the autumn of 1799. 3 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 37īORN: Decem(his baptismal certificate is dated the 17th).
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