Beethoven Klaviertrios Band 1

Piano trios were, one might almost say, a fashionable item during the classical period and well into the 19th century. It is therefore no coincidence that, after Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven also explored this genre and left behind a total of 13 piano trios. This first volume contains the three piano trios op. 1, the first works by Beethoven that he considered worthy of an opus number, as well as the Trio op. 11 for clarinet or alternatively violin, cello and piano ("Gassenhauer"). When Beethoven presented the three trios op. 1 to the public (including Joseph Haydn), presumably in August 1795 during a soirée at Prince Lichnowsky's, he caused a sensation. They remain gems of the genre to this day.