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Beethoven was born in December 1770 in Bonn, in a family of musicians at the royal court of Cologne.!
THE STORY BEHIND: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 ("Emperor")
It is a truism to say that Ludwig van Beethoven changed the course of music history.
However, it is another matter, and a more exciting one, to hear a Beethoven composition that actually did change history. The “Emperor” Piano Concerto is such a work.
Before Beethoven, the role of the performer was more creative than in later times.
Performers were expected to improvise not only ornaments and filler passages but, in a solo concerto, also a whole cadenza (long solo near the end of the first movement).
Conductor Jan Caeyers has been known for years as a Beethoven specialist.
It was the performer’s job to “finish” the composition for the audience (in the same way, today, that an interior decorator finishes the work of an architect and a builder). Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto wrested that decorative privilege from the performer, who often took too much license with it anyway.
In this concerto’s first movement just before the conclu