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This article is about Beethoven's "Gassenhauer Trio". For the work by Carl Orff, see Gassenhauer.
The Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 11, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in and published in Vienna the next year.
It is one of a series of early chamber works, many involving woodwind instruments because of their popularity and novelty at the time. The trio is scored for piano, clarinet (or violin), and cello (sometimes replaced by bassoon).
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The key of B-flat major was probably chosen to facilitate fast passages in the B-flat clarinet, which had not yet benefited from the development of modern key systems (such as the Albert system or Boehm system). Beethoven dedicated this piano trio to Countess Maria Wilhelmine von Thun.
The work is also sometimes known by the nickname "Gassenhauer Trio". This arose from its third movement which contains nine variations on a theme from the then popular dramma giocosoL'amor marinaro ossia Il corsaro (15 Oct
