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Beethoven never wrote the "Emperor Concerto"?

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Live Klassisk1 min read|29. July 2026

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Beethoven never wrote the "Emperor Concerto"?
OK then, he did write the fifth piano concerto - but it was never he who called it the Emperor Concerto!

The nickname appeared after his time, most likely coined by the English publisher Johann Baptist Cramer. Perhaps even more surprising is that Beethoven himself never got to play the work – this was his fifth and last piano concerto, and the only one he did not perform in public. When it was premiered in Leipzig in 1811, his deafness had become so severe that he could no longer rely on his own performance. The honour went instead to the 25-year-old organist Friedrich Schneider.

Hear Víkingur Ólafsson play Beethoven's fifth piano concerto at the Opera on 21 August.