Posted by Maxim Lando, on Mar 08, 2012

As a winner of New York’s Concert Festival Concerto Competition, I had the opportunity to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto nº 1 with the North Shore Symphony Orchestra on Long Island. It was my first time ever playing with an orchestra, and I really hope it is the first of many –because I LOVED it! What an amazing feeling playing music in conversation with 80 instruments.

Fun Facts for Beethoven Piano Concerto Nº1 in C major op. 15

• Beethoven composed the Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1797 and he was the pianist for it’s very first performance in Prague. Imagine hearing hearing that! After the premiere Beethoven performed the concerto frequently as a pianistic showpiece for himself in many concerts around Germany.
• Did you know that Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1 is actually the second piano concerto that he wrote and that the Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat is his first? He wrote five concertos for piano, and I can’t wait to play them all.
• Beethoven could hear when he composed the the Piano Concerto No. 1, but can you imagine how he must have felt composing music when he began to lose his hearing?

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