This volume contains all of Beethoven’s surviving cadenzas and lead-ins for piano concertos: both for his own concertos nos. 1–4, for his piano arrangement of the Violin Concerto op. 61 as well as for Mozart’s Concerto in d minor K. 466. They were in all probability not intended for his own use, as Beethoven’s improvisatory skills were legendary. His pupil and patron Archduke Rudolph of Austria, in whose library the unpublished autographs were kept for decades during the composer’s lifetime, mig...

• Piano Concerto no. 1 in C major op. 15: first cadenza 1st movement
• Piano Concerto no. 2 in B flat major op. 19: cadenza 1st movement
• Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor op. 37: cadenza 1st movement
• Piano Concerto no. 4 G major op. 58: first cadenza 1st movement
• Piano Transcription of the Violin concerto in D major op. 61a: cadenza 1st movement
• Piano Transcription of the Violin concerto D major op. 61a: Transition: 2nd to 3rd movement
• Piano Transcription of the Violin concerto in D majo...