3rd piano concerto (Beethoven)

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The Piano Concerto no. 3 C minor , op. 37 is the third Piano Concerto of Beethoven .

Emergence

The work was created between 1800 and 1803. It is dedicated to Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia . It was premiered with Beethoven the composer on April 5, 1803 in Vienna . Beethoven's friend Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried , who at Beethoven's request turned the pages of the notes during the premiere , later reported that they were empty except for a few “Egyptian hieroglyphs that I couldn't understand”.

To the music

Sentence names

  1. Allegro con brio
  2. largo
  3. Allegro

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characterization

Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto is the composer's only piano concerto in a minor key .

It is considered to be his first piano concerto with symphonic features, which should help the genre of the piano concerto from the salon into the concert hall. Advances in piano construction favored this development. Beethoven might have served as models for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's piano concertos KV 466 (in D minor) and KV 491 (in C minor); Beethoven greatly admired both works. Beethoven's C minor Concerto and Mozart's KV 491 have a broken chord in the strings as the head motif, a timpani in the cadence exit and an execution of the coda by the piano between the cadence and the final bar .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Wheelock Thayer : Ludwig van Beethoven's life. 2nd volume. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1910, p. 370 ( Chapter 10. The year 1802 at Zeno.org .).
  2. ↑ Sven Hiemke (Ed.): Beethoven - Handbook . Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel 2009, p. 149