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Prior to the last appearance of the rondo theme, Beethoven brings the piano in the "wrong" key of G major, and with the theme displaced early by one beat with respect to the barline, before the orchestra "discovers" the discrepancy and returns to the correct tonic key and metric alignment. This
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