Piano Concerto No. 6 (Beethoven)

Description

Beethoven spent a great deal of time on the concerto in estimated late 1814 and early 1815. He made about seventy pages of sketches for the first movement, and even started writing out a full score (MS Artaria 184 in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin). The score runs almost uninterrupted from the beginning of the movement to the middle of the solo exposition (bar 182), although the scoring becomes patchy as the work proceeds and there are signs of indecision or dissatisfaction on the composer's part. This partial movement (known as Hess 15) remains one of the most substantial of Beethoven's unrealized conceptions.

A completion of the first movement was reconstructed by British scholar Nicholas Cook in 1987.

References

References

1. Douglas Porter Johnson, [[Alan Tyson]], Robert Winter (1985). {{Google books. hfFT5p8_qKwC. The Beethoven Sketchbooks: History, Reconstruction, Inventory, University of California Press. pp. 234, 242–244, 342 {{ISBN. 9780520048355
2. Nicholas Cook. "Piano Concerto No. 6 in D, Hess 15 (1815) First movement, Performing edition by Prof. Nicholas Cook".
3. "Beethoven unfinished Concerto for Piano D major, No. 6 (1815)".