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Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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Beethoven's Reversing of the Order in the Second Movement

We start in the glowing key of F-sharp major, which is quite a surprise. We need to find our way to the coda, and to do that Beethoven is going to go back to that B theme. But we're going to get back to the A theme, and yes, sadly for us conductors, Beethoven will use another scale to do it. Though it's a shorter one, and it's not as difficult. At least for me.

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