Beethoven: Piano Quartet in C major (WoO 36, No. 3) - I. Allegro vivace

[michaelmanson]

I think they were pretty good but I could hardly hear them.

[keizerjoo]

Beethoven was 14 years old when he wrote this.

[classicvinylbiz]

Very nicely played! Bravo!

[MikJFr]

@classicvinylbiz I also enjoyed the performance from the 1970 cassette you've uploaded, although I found the first movement there a little too hurried, and naturally the sound quality isn't the same. I find this is the only youthful work of Beethoven's that has clear hints of his later self.

[ronaldjevans]

Fifteen year old Beethoven wrote this C major piano quartet (WoO 36) in 1785, the same year that Mozart wrote his famous G minor piano quartet (K 478). The lovely G minor melody heard here at 1:00 was used again 10 years later by Beethoven, in his C major piano sonata, op. 2 no. 3.