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Although this was Beethoven's first piano concerto to be published, it was actually his third attempt at the genre, following an unpublished piano concerto in E-flat major of 1784 and the Piano Concerto No. 2. The latter was published in 1801 in Leipzig after the Piano Concerto No. 1, but was composed over a period of years, perhaps beginning ...
Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.
The variations have been called "Beethoven’s most overt pianistic homage to the Baroque." [2] The variations differ in character, technical difficulty and dynamics. Pianist Yue Chu points out that the key of C minor indicates that "Beethoven was serious when composing this work," despite his apparent misgivings later. [3]
However, starting with the Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 109, Beethoven started redefining the form, resulting in variations which take on more individual and radical reinterpretations of the original themes. The variations did not merely vary the theme, they transformed it or played with its fundamentals, as seen in some variations in the ...
Piano Concerto No. 1 refers to the first piano concerto published by one of a number of composers: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Bartók) (Sz. 83), by Béla Bartók; Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven) (Op. 15), by Ludwig van Beethoven; Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms) (Op. 15), by Johannes Brahms; Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin) (Op. 11), by Frédéric Chopin
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 3 & 4. Beethoven: Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 37 / Piano Concerto in G major, Op. 58 Leon Fleisher, pianist; George Szell: 1959 & 1961 Sony Classical: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Handel Variations. Brahms: Piano Concerto in D minor, Op. 15 / Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op. 24 Rudolf Serkin ...
Pages in category "Piano variations by Ludwig van Beethoven" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Vox Records is a budget classical record label.The name is Latin for "voice." Some Vox releases such as Peter Frankl's Debussy Piano Works and György Sándor's Complete Prokofiev Sonatas were reissued in premium vinyl boxsets by the audiophile German FSM Records Hamburg.