Trios op. 1
for piano, violin and violoncello
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Trios op. 1
for piano, violin and violoncello

Ludwig van Beethoven
Trios op. 1

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Description:

  • Language: German English
  • Pages: 235
  • Release: 21.05.2025
  • Opus: 1
  • Genre: Classical Music, Classical Music (Classical Era)
  • ISMN: 9790006615872
Artaria had already published Beethoven's variations on a Mozart aria under the highly symbolic opus number 1 in 1793. However, the composer was not satisfied with this work and ensured that the opus number was transferred to another group of works, the three piano trios op. 1, which appeared in 1795. His hope that these compositions would be worthy of his "Opus 1" and would make an impression was to be fulfilled.

The list of subscribers to the first printing of the trios is impressive, as it includes influential aristocrats, a number of whom are associated with Haydn as dedicatees of his works. Haydn had obviously been helpful to his former pupil here. Haydn's compositional influence on Beethoven can also be found in many aspects of the trios. Ultimately, however, it must have been the innovation that astonished and delighted the early Viennese audience: the virtuosity and scale of the unusually large-scale works, the incredibly extended coda of the outer movements, the radical nature of the dynamic contrasts and the introduction of remote keys as a means of musical expression.

In order to clarify some unclear readings, the editor and Beethoven specialist Jonathan Del Mar has consulted Beethoven's entries in his op. 104 (an arrangement of the trio op. 1 no. 3) - a source that has not been taken into account in any previous edition of this trio.