Piano Concerto No. 3 (Beethoven)

The Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op.37 is the third piano concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Formation

The work was written in between 1800 and 1803. It is dedicated to Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. It was first performed as a soloist with Beethoven on April 5, 1803 in Vienna. Beethoven's friend, Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, who turned the page on Beethoven's request, during the premiere of the notes, later reported that these except for a few " me purely unintelligible Egyptian hieroglyphics " were empty.

About the Music

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Characterization

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

It is regarded as his first piano concert with symphonic features, which should help the genre of the piano concerto from the salon to the concert hall. Progress in piano favored this development. As models could Beethoven Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concertos K. 466 ( in D minor ) and K. 491 have served ( in C minor ); both works were much admired by Beethoven. Beethoven's C minor Concerto and Mozart's K. 491 have in common a broken chord in the strings as head motif, a timpani cadenza in output and between cadence and final clock execution of the coda by the piano.