Ludwig van Beethoven: Flotenserenade Op.25 Urtext: Mixed Ensemble: Parts

Serenade for Flute Violin and Viola in D major op. 25-What occasioned Beethoven to write a composition for such an unusual and yet sonorous group of instruments Was it perhaps commissioned by a nobleman who played music with such a group and needed music Whatever thereason behind it Opus 25 is one of Beethoven’s few chamber music works that did not have a Bass instrument. Despite the unusual combination of instruments Beethoven had no difficulty in finding apublisher for his serenade; shortly afterwards he even turned to the work again and revised an arrangement for Flute and Piano (op. 41 - our HN 934) which had been made by a third party.