At the age of 20, for the first and definitely not the last time, Beethoven would fall in love with a piano student: Eleonore von Breuning(as portrayed). She answers his love, but just as things get serious, Beethoven gets cold feet and pushes her away, which he will later regret. A friendship is what remains, luckily. He writes a couple of compositions for Eleonore for a now long forgotten instrument: the orphica(see picture below). Around that same time he writes a cantata as well.
1.Ludwig van Beethoven: Two pieces for piano WoO 51
Jenö Jandó, piano
2.Ludwig van Beethoven: Rondo in G major. for violin and piano WoO 41
James Ehnes, violin
Andrew Armstrong, piano
3.Ludwig van Beethoven: 13 variations on ‘Es war einmal ein alter Mann’ from Dittersdorfs opera Das rothe Käppchen. WoO 66
John Ogdon, piano
4.Ludwig van Beethoven: Pianotrio no. 10 in E-flat major. op. 44
Beaux Arts Trio
5.Ludwig van Beethoven: parts 1 and 2 from Kantate auf die Erhebung Leopold II zur Kaiserwürde WoO 88
conducted by Leif Segerstam
