Rondino, WoO 25 - Wind Octet

This modest piece shares with Beethoven’s more substantial wind octet the year of composition, key, and scoring (pairs of oboes, clarinets, horns, and bassoons), and in fact was probably composed originally as an alternate finale for that work. It’s one of many pieces Beethoven composed as “table music” for the court of Maximilian Franz, Elector of Cologne, in whose service he had been since 1784. Includes one full score and parts for the full instrumentation (2 oboes, 2 horns, 2 clarinets, and 2 bassoons).