It appears that Beethoven wrote one more piano sonata, three years before he published his first official sonata. The young Beethoven was 22 years old then. This Sonata Fantasia in D was hidden in the archives since 1792, and is now issued in print for the first time. The publication and the reconstruction of the sketches was done by the Dutch Beethoven musicologist Cees Nieuwenhuizen. The work of the young Beethoven resembles the famous Moonlight Sonata and the Sonata Pastorale and contains many ideas that Beethoven used in other, later works. It's a fascinating link between the early piano works and the first piano sonatas Opus 2 published by the young master. The world premiere is on Sunday 21 October 2012 by the young piano virtuoso Martin Oei (16 years) in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
On Cees Nieuwenhuizen
Cees Nieuwenhuizen is world famous for his reconstructions of works by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Nieuwenhuizen studied piano, composition and music theory in Alkmaar (The Netherlands) and subsequently at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (The Netherlands). There he studies piano with Else Krijgsman and composition with the Dutch composers Daan Manneke and Simeon ten Holt.
