Beethoven: Trio for 2 Oboes and English Horn in C major, Op. 87 (with Score)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio for 2 Oboes and English Horn in C major, Op. 87 (with Score) Composed: 1795 Performed: Marilyn Zupnik, Kathryn Greenbank, Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia 0:00 Allegro (C major) 10:27 Adagio (F major) 15:13 Minuet. Allegro molto. Scherzo Trio (C major) 17:53 Finale. Presto (C major) Beethoven wrote a great deal of music for various combinations of wind instruments during his teens and 20s. Some of this was intended for the Bonn court of the Elector Maximilian Franz, who maintained an ensemble of wind players, and some represented Beethoven s attempt in Vienna to teach himself to write idiomatically for winds as he prepared to compose a symphony. But his Trio, Op. 87 comes from a different genre altogether: it was intended for the growing number of amateur performers in Vienna. Beethoven composed the Trio for the unlikely combination of two oboes and English horn in 1794, shortly after his arrival in that city (and he actually wrote another work for this particular combination of player