Piano Concerto No. 6 (Ries)

Composed in a proto-Romantic style, similar to the concertos of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, it also shows evidence of the influence of Beethoven's C minor Piano Concerto, Op.

[1][2] The manuscript bears the notation "Bonn 1806", suggesting it was completed there.

[3][4] Allan Badley, in the notes to the Naxos recording comments that this would most likely make it the first of Ries's eight piano concertos to be written.

[a][5] Further evidence for this lies in the fact that this is the only piano concerto by Ries to provide for a cadenza at the end of the first movement, as was traditional.

[4][3] The concerto follows the traditional three-movement structure: To date the concerto has only been recorded once, by Uwe Grodd with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and soloist Christopher Hinterhuber, this was released by Naxos Records[b] in conjunction with a publication of the score in a critical edition prepared by Allen Bradley.