The first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 is the prescribed work for OCR’s AoS1 for examination in 2024, and should be studied and contextualised within a number of other works in this area of study. Alongside this piece, studying other piano concertos by Beethoven, as well as some by Haydn and Mozart, will be essential in giving the students the best overview of the piano concerto in the Classical period.
