The Violin Concerto in C major, WoO 5 is a concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven dating from between 1790 and 1792. Only a 259-bar fragment of the first movement in Beethoven's handwriting survives, and is kept in the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. There is extensive debate about whether this fragment represents a part of a finished movement (or indeed entire concerto), the rest of which has subsequently been lost, or whether the movement was never completed. On a number of occasions since its rediscovery in 1870, the work has been "finished" and published by others, including Josef Hellmesberger, Juan Manen, and August Wilhelmj - often with considerable criticism with the way the work has been handled. The first scholarly edition of the work was published by Willy Hess in 1961.