Ludwig Van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in 1770. He learned to write music at a very young age, but unlike Mozart, Beethoven was not so much a child prodigy as he learned more through practice than anything else. It wasn’t until the age of twenty two that Beethoven moved to the city of Vienna, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. He lived the majority of his life during the Classical era. Beethoven wrote his Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op.11 in the year 1797. A piano trio is a composition written for three parts. The three instruments of a piano trio include: a piano, and two stringed instruments, typically a violin and cello pair. With that fact in mind, Beethoven’s original composition was written for a piano, cello,
