It was just called "Piano Concerto in E-flat major, WoO 4" and I had never heard of it before.
So I did some Googling and trusty old Wikipedia churned out this interesting info:
- It's a fragmentary work, with only the piano part surviving.
- Beethoven wrote it when he was only 13!
- Since it wasn't published during his lifetime but was written before all of his other piano concertos, it's referred to as "Piano Concerto No.0"!
Pretty neat, huh! I've never heard of anything being referred to as a "No.0"...
As I listen to it, I'm reminded deeply of Haydn's piano concertos (since Beethoven deeply admired Haydn), but in the first movement cadenza for example, there's definitely a young Beethoven at work.
It's incredible to hear that at the age of 13, Beethoven was already making his mark in music! Pretty cool.
You should see Bruckner's Symphonies no. 0 and no. 00.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._0_(Bruckner)
No. 8, of course, is the best - where I got started on Bruckner. (especially the finale)
Very cool! I deleted my other comment which I wrote wrong...he made his first piano concerto FIRST (piano trios are opus 1) though he wrote it second on purpose. But these days we always love to pull out these early things and say, "Look - it's early Beethoven!", etc. I'm sure Beethoven would be pissed. :P
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