The Andante favori is a work for piano solo by Ludwig van Beethoven.
It was originally intended to be the second of the three movements of Beethoven's Waldstein Piano Sonata, Op.
Formally, the work is a rondo, with each return of the theme appearing in varied form.
The makers of the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice used the Andante favori as the musical content of a concocted scene in which Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy exchange tender glances while his sister Georgiana plays the andante on the fortepiano.
[a] The action of the scene is timed to match two modulations in the music, from F to D♭ major and then back again.