Slowest 2nd movement to beethoven 7th symphony

Each of the trios is in four movements rather than the two or three expected in chamber music with piano: these are not elevated divertissements, but symphonies for three instruments. And with their largely emancipated string parts, their weighty, extended sonata structures and their intensity of musical dialectic, the three works must have seemed like a headlong assault on the traditional notion of the piano trio as a small-scale domestic genre. The Prince held regular private soirГ©es at which Beethoven would astonish the company with his brilliant keyboard improvisations and it was at one of these soirГ©es that he chose to introduce his first important Viennese compositions, the set of three piano trios which he published by subscription in August 1795 with a dedication to Lichnowsky.Д«eethoven was determined to impress and challenge the Viennese musical elite with this first published opus. Soon after his arrival he became a house guest of Prince Karl Lichnowsky, a talented amateur pianist who kept his own string quartet. For all their вЂdespairing frivolityвЂ™ (to quote A J P Taylor), the fin de siГЁcle Viennese aristocracy was the most musically enlightened in Europe and with the help of aristocratic contacts, the fiery sans-culotte quickly made his mark in the cityвЂ™s salons. His plan was to study composition with Haydn, by now an international celebrity, before conquering the city as a composer-performer.

In early November 1792 the twenty-one-year-old Beethoven left his native Bonn for Vienna, then vying with London as EuropeвЂ™s musical capital.

Slowest 2nd movement to beethoven 7th symphony