From Birmingham
Nigel Dallaway (Pianoforte)
Edgar Clarke (Oboe)
S.C. Cotterell (Clarinet)
W.A. Clarke (Bassoon)
W.S. Yorke (Horn)

At the time this music was written (when Beethoven was in his middle twenties) he almost idolized Mozart, and we find strong traces of the latter's influence.
There are three Movements - the First, a lively one, being introduced by a short slow section; the Second is a suave slow Movement, singing its way gracefully, and the last is a dapper Rondo. In a performance of the work in which the composer took the Pianoforte part, he played a characteristic joke on the other performers in this Last Movement, for once when the main tune was about to come round again, he intervened with a Pianoforte improvisation upon it that was not in the copies, keeping the others on tenterhooks, for they did not know when they should come in again, and so made several false starts at blowing before Beethoven gave them a cue.