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The is the only one of Beethoven’s piano concertos that can properly be called a work in the High Classical tradition – it was mostly written between 1787 and 1789, when Beethoven was in his teens and well before he started work on what is now known as the 1st Piano Concerto, deploys a small orchestra without any timpani, trumpets, or clarinets, and uses (especially in the first movement) a lot of figuration that could pretty reasonably be called Mozart- or Haydn-like. But it’s also remarkable that ev
