Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola in D Major, Op. 25 is currently unavailable

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Flute, Violin, Viola (STUDY SCORE) SKU: HL.51489370 Revised Edition Study Score. Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. Edited by Egon Voss. Study Score. Paperbound. Henle Music Folios. Classical. Study score (paperbound). 36 pages. G. Henle #HN9370. Published by G. Henle (HL.51489370). ISBN 9790201893709. UPC: 884088274566. 6.75x9.5x0.165 inches.What occasioned Beethoven to write a composition for such an unusual and yet sonorous group of instruments? Was it perhaps commissioned by a nobleman who played music with such a group and needed music? Whatever the reason behind it, opus 25 is one of Beethoven's few chamber music works that did not have a bass instrument. Despite the unusual combination of instruments, Beethoven had no difficulty in finding a publisher for his serenade; shortly afterwards he even turned to the work again and revised an arrangement for flute and piano (op. 41), which had been made by a third party. Our revised edition follows the musical text which will soon be published in volume VI/1 of our new Beethoven Complete Edition.