Originally posted by Chris
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I am open to correction on this, but I don't think WoO2b has been entirely established as being part of any of the Leonore versions. John Eliot Gardiner uses it, but the piece also appears in Vol 3 of the DGG Complete Edition, under music for the stage. The notes refer to it as follows:
"In 1813 the Vienna Burgtheater commissioned a piece from Beethoven, a Triumphal March, (WoO2a) which fully deserves to be classified as incidental music. It was written for a now totally forgotten tragedy, "Tarpeja" by Christoph Kuffner. A second piece has survived, described in the autograph score as an "Introduzione de ildo atto" (WoO2b) but without any further indication as to the play to which this "second act" belongs."
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