LOST BEETHOVEN CONCERTO TO BE HEARD

A previously unknown LUDWIG BEETHOVEN piano concerto will be performed for the first time in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on Tuesday (01FEB05).

The 1789 adagio was found as a rough outline in London's British Museum and formed into an eight-minute piece by CEES NIEUWENHUIZEN. Dutch pianist RONALD BRAUTIGAM will play the tune in a Rotterdam Chamber Orchestra concert next week.

Orchestra conductor CONRAD VAN ALPHEN says, "As far as we know, Beethoven did write a whole concert that included this adagio and disappeared.

"We have not found any trace that is was ever played before. It is clearly a piece from his youth but not of a first-timer.

"In 1789 Beethoven had already started work on his second piano concerto."