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I saw parts of A Boy Named Charlie Brown last night, and it has some charm but also considerable filler to pad it out to feature length. The best filler segment by far was Schroeder playing the entire 2nd Movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (per Wikipedia). That was really good. Schroeder also plays parts of the 1st and 3rd Movements.
Apparently the soundtrack album included only a portion of the 3rd Movement excerpt ! Because the last thing you want on a soundtrack album is the most striking music from the film.
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Um… the CD is almost completely full with an hour and eighteen minutes of music as it is. It wouldn't surprise me that the Beethoven excerpt on this CD is the only part recorded specifically for the film. I counted, and there are currently fourteen jillion recordings of the complete piano sonata readily available. Why would a producer boot the film's original music (otherwise unavailable) for the fourteen jillionth and one?
Today that's right. Two clicks and you've got your Beethoven. But I was thinking of the 1970 LP which, if I had bought it, I would have been hoping for the Schroeder/Beethoven cue. People's music collections were dramatically smaller at the time. There was no digital music, and everybody was a lot younger then. So you didn't have a particular classical piece.
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Even back then there was tons of recordings of Beethoven's piece. It is, after all, one of his most popular works.
But I was 8 in 1970. It would have taken me a month to save up for a single LP. I can assure you, had I been hunting for the music from a Peanuts movie, I wouldn't be doing it in the Beethoven aisle. I would naturally go to "the source." 
This is not even to mention: before the Internet, and before home video where you can pause the end credits, there was no way to know what Beethoven work was even played in the film. Apparently the LP just called it "Do Piano Players Make a Lot of Money?" (per Wikipedia).
And Schiffy is right about some of those "period" soundtrack albums. A decent one we had was The Odd Couple (1968). In that case, the dialogue was recreated like a radio show, with now-awful laugh track, and the Neal Hefti cues were separate tracks. That was good.
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