Charles Petzold



From 1785 to 1789, Beethoven seems to taken a compositional hiatus, perhaps triggered by a bad review of his early piano works, or a failure to get the piano quartets published. Chronological dating of Beethoven's music from 1785 through 1792 remains highly controversial.

#Beethoven250 Day 13
Minuet in E♭ Major (WoO 82), 1785?

This short and unobtrusive minuet could really have been composed any time before its 1805 publication, but it seems like an early work to me.