Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770 - 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical music repertoire, and span the transition from the classical period to the romantic era in classical music. His career has conventionally been divided into early, middle, and late periods. The "early" period, during which he forged his craft, is typically considered to have lasted until 1802. From 1802 to around 1812, his "middle" period showed an individual development from the "classical" styles of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and is sometimes characterized as "heroic". During this time, he began to suffer increasingly from deafness. In his "late" period from 1812 to his death in 1827, he extended his innovations in musical form and expression.
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String Trio No. 2 in G major, Op. 9 No. 1 (1798)
Dedicated to Count Johann Georg von Browne-Camus
1. Adagio - Allegro con brio (0:00)
2. Adagio, ma non tanto, e cantabile (10:24)
3. Scherzo; Allegro (17:55)
4. Presto (20:35)
Grumiaux Trio
Arthur Grumiaux, violin
Georges Janzer, viola
Eva Czako, cello
Description by Robert Cummings [-]
The Op. 9 trios are among the most important early chamber works by Beethoven. Each of the three works consists of four movements, like the then-recent Haydn symphonies. By this time Beethoven may well have been writing in the chamber/string genre as a means of testing his skills in the symphonic realm, which he was a bit hesitant to enter owing to Haydn's dominance of the field. Whatever his motives, he turned out three works whose chamber instrumentation perfectly suits their music.
The score to the work was first published in 1798, along with those of the other two Op. 9 Trios. All three were dedicated to Count Johann Georg von Browne, a Russian army Officer (of Irish extraction!) who was one of Beethoven's leading patrons.