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The Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, known as the Emperor Concerto in English-speaking countries, is a piano concerto composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven composed the concerto in 1809 under salary in Vienna, and he dedicated it to Archduke Rudolf , who was his patron, friend, and pupil.
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 is always thought to have been composed in 1800, although the year of its composition has been questioned by some contemporary musicologists. It was first performed on 5 April 1803, with the composer as soloist. [ 1 ]
Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, was composed in 1805–1806. Beethoven was the soloist in the public premiere as part of the concert on 22 December 1808 at Vienna's Theater an der Wien .
Beethoven spent a great deal of time on the concerto in estimated late 1814 and early 1815. [1] He made about seventy pages of sketches for the first movement, and even started writing out a full score (MS Artaria 184 in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), which runs almost uninterrupted from the beginning of the movement to the middle of the solo exposition (bar 182), although the scoring ...
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 sonata was first performed on 5 March 1809 as part of a benefit concert for the cellist Nikolaus Kraft, who performed it with pianist Dorothea von Ertmann, [4] a student of Beethoven. [6] Kraft, known for "technical mastery" and a "clear, rich tone", [ 6 ] : 162 was the cellist for whom Beethoven had written his Triple Concerto , [ 9 ...
Ludwig van Beethoven's Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major, WoO 6 was composed in 1793 and originally intended as the final movement for his second piano concerto. [1] Hans-Werner Küthen states this was probably the finale for the first and second versions of the second piano concerto, being replaced by the final version of the rondo ...
Portrait of Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven, the composer's younger brother and dedicatee of the six bagatelles, c. 1841 by an unknown artist. A bagatelle, in Beethoven's usage, is a kind of brief character piece. [citation needed] The set comprises six short works, as follows: Andante con moto, Cantabile e compiacevole, G major, 3 4; Allegro, G ...