Anton Van Dijck

It is unbelievable that such a popular work in the current repertoire as Ludwig van Beethovens Violin Concerto Op. 61 only conquered the concert hall around three to four decades after its composition. The work ultimately gained its popularity through two revised printed versions published in Vienna and in London, which both reveal substantial revisions in the solo parts. The quest for Beethovens original version proves to be extremely complicated, as Beethoven himself offered up to four alternatives to the soloists in some spots of the manuscript.

Born in Prague in 1770, Anton Reicha moved to Bonn in 1785, where he played violin and flute in the court orchestra, along with Ludwig van Beethoven. The two, who were the same age, struck up a close friend- ship, and initially it seemed that Reicha was the more successful of the two, as already in 1787, he managed to get his first symphony and several smaller works performed in Bonn. By contrast, Beethoven worked on and abandoned a symphony in c minor during this time, and his two large-scale cantatas from 1790 do not seem to have been performed during his lifetime. Reicha, however, was also far more academically inclined and entered the University of Bonn in 1789, although possibly due to familial pressure, whereas Beethoven left for Vienna in 1792.

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