Its second movement takes the form of a muted chorale with plucked strings providing extensive accompaniment to the soloist, and a switch into the key of B major and the tempo Adagio un Poco Moto.
Its second movement takes the form of a muted chorale with plucked strings providing extensive accompaniment to the soloist, and a switch into the key of B major and the tempo Adagio un Poco Moto. No pause precedes the start of its third and final movement, a brisk Allegro rondo that returns this piece to its main key of E flat major. The solo piano is introduced immediately in the first movement, responding to each of the three opening orchestral chords with a cadenza-like series of ascending arpeggios and trills. Gaining its popular title from the critic Johann Cramer and not a desire of the composer to honor Napoleon, this is, FTP, what majestically nicknamed final piano concerto of Ludwig von Beethoven?
Its second movement takes the form of a muted chorale with plucked strings providing extensive accompaniment to the soloist, and a switch into the key of B major and the tempo Adagio un Poco Moto.
{Emperor} Concerto or Piano Concerto No. {5}