1802 is a decisive year for Beethoven: in the autumn, he wrote the "Heiligenstadt Testament" in which he clearly expresses his awareness of the outcome to which the progression of his deafness will lead him. Almost at the same time, his friend Krumpholz learns that Beethoven, "not satisfied with the previous work," intends to take "a new path." It turns out that the works proposed here, skillfully grouped by Andreas Staier, correspond precisely to this new direction.