This substantial but relatively
neglected piece has affinities with the slow movements of the String Quintet in
C major D. 956, and the Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat, D 898. Completed in the autumn
of 1827, it is possibly a rejected slow movement of the Piano Trio No. 1. It
has the sublime slowness of the string quintet movement, together with a
similar use of pizzicato at various points, and with the same paradoxical
effect: the pizzicato decorations of the main tune seem to enhance the
underlying tragedy of the music, rather than lightening it
