Piano Concerto No. 6 (Beethoven)

Piano Concerto No. 6 in D major, Hess 15, is a piano concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven that was not completed. It is not to be mixed up with the transcription by the Beethoven for piano and orchestra of the Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61, which can be called the 6th Piano Concerto.

Description

Beethoven spent a lot of time on the concerto in the end of 1814 and start of 1815.Douglas Porter Johnson, Alan Tyson, Robert Winter (1985). , University of California Press. pp. 234, 242–244, 342  He made seventy pages of sketches for the first movement, and started writing a full score that is almost completed from the start of the movement to the middle of the solo beginning (bar 182), but the writing starts to be less clear as the work goes on and there are signs that the composer was not happy with or could not decide on some parts.

A complete first movement was made by British scholar Nicholas Cook in 1987.

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Category:Compositions in D major