Piano Forum

cool that several people here have played it.  i just have a schirmer score that was copyrighted in 1901 and provided with fingering and a complete arrangement for piano.  the introduction and notes were translated from german by dr. th. baker.

this concerto (according to my score) was dedicated to his imperial highness archduke rudolph of austria.  it was finished in 1806 ? and published in august 1808 by kunst und industrie - comptoir, vienna.  it was performed for the first time in public (according to thayer - 'the life of beethoven, vol III pp 6-8) by the composer on dec 22, 1808 in the theater an der wien.  this concerto was played as eaerly as march 1807, in the salons of prince lobkowitz.

czerny gives a tempo for this piece in his 'die kunst des vortrags,' supplement to the great pianoforte method, opus 500 - as quarter note = 116. 

all appoggiaturas in this concerto, with the sole exception of that beginning the trill on pg. 67 are crossed (crossed flags) in the original edition - whereas the original impression of the c-minor concerto, which was published by the same firm four years previously, contains only uncrossed appoggiaturas. 

in some places you can substitute triplets in the bottom note area of some of the double trills. 

this particular edition has two cadenzas in the appendix that were written by beethoven.  in nottebohm's thematic catalogue of beethoven's compositions, these cadenzas are enumerated among the authentic ones; the autographs, according to the same authority, are in the possession of breitkopf and hartel.  not published during the composer's lifetime, they were first printed, to the best of our knowledge,by the above firm.

the first cadenza has the words 'ma senza cadere.'  according to nottebohm, this title was written by beethoven himself.  also cf - thayer's chronological catalogue no 131.

there is also a fischhof copy, in the berlin royal library that reads like the schirmer edition.