Franz Clement's Violin Concerto in D Major, premiered by its composer in 1805 at a concert in which Beethoven conducted his Eroica Symphony, undoubtedly exerted an important influence on Beethoven's violin concerto (which was written for Clement the following year), not only in respect of the treatment of the solo instrument, but also in terms of musical content. Clement's concerto is a piece of real substance that reveals an exceptionally gifted composer, capable of handling the musical idiom o...