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| | Classical Net Review - Beethoven - "Archduke" and "Gassenhauer" Piano Trios |
 | | His great piano trios actually involve four "players" – violinist, cellist, and the left and right hands of the pianist – and distribute interest equally among them. |
 | | The "Gassenhauer" Trio is a fairly "unbuttoned" work, with a bright and bouncy first movement, slow-variations second movement, and a finale based on a popular aria by a composer named Joseph Weigl. |
 | | Throughout the trio, Beethoven almost obsessively explores all combinations of the instruments violin solo, cello solo, piano solo, violin with cello, violin with piano, cello with piano, piano left hand, piano right hand, strings alternating with piano, as well as the entire ensemble. |
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