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E = the Emperor Piano Concerto, meaning Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #5 in E-flat, specifically its second movement, written in 1811 as Beethoven approached total deafness.
if you’re curious, a concerto is a piece for a group of musicians (often a full orchestra), where the group interacts with one (eh, usually one) featured solo instrumentalist the whole time. The most common concerto is a piano concerto, but there are dozens of famous violin concertos, and cello concertos, and others for pretty much every instrument out there.
links below go to the Emperor Concerto’s gliding 2nd movement, but if you want more heat & a sharper example of the concerto form, then also take the first minute of its first movement for a spin
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