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Beethoven's only Violin Concerto (Opus 61) didn't come with a cadenza.  It was up to the performer to improvise his own cadenza in those days.  Later it somehow it became the norm to perform a prepared, composed cadenza, so these were no longer improvised affairs.  I think that's too bad, since improvisation never hurt jazz did it?      B eventually retro-actively composed "official" cadenzas for
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