Ludwig van Beethovens Fr Elise This short and light composition for solo. The symphony's second movement Allegretto is well-known and has been widely used as. It was completed in 1812, and was dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries. 92, in 1811, while he was staying in the Bohemian spa town of Teplice in the hope of improving his health. Ludwig van Beethoven began to work on his Symphony No.
Well over 100 conductors have recorded Beethoven’s Seventh with many setting down several versions. Claudio Abbado (conductor) Berlin Philharmonic (1999) DG E471 4902. There are noted features about pieces in different times in Beethoven’s career, and his work is often divided into three periods:The best recording Beethoven’s Symphony No.
As we saw him use a “building block” approach in the first movement of his 5th Symphony, this rhythmic idea here will serve as the building block for this movement.1:03 – Second iteration – As this movement progresses, we’ll see that Beethoven will take a strategy of “start with an interesting idea, and see how many different times we can reiterate it and develop it and keep things interesting.” So the second time now, the violins are added in, and a melody begins to emerge underneath in the cellos.1:49 – Third iteration – The melody rises up to the violins, and now the orchestra starts to build in volume and intensity.2:34 – Fourth iteration – Now, the whole orchestra is in it, and there are all sorts of ideas happening at the same time. One could say that there is not really a melody in this (yet), and perhaps Beethoven is drawing attention to the rhythmic pulse (long, short-short long, long) as the main idea. Allegretto0:15 – After a kind of mysterious opening chord from the woodwinds, the lower strings (violas, cellos, basses) introduce the main theme. His Seventh Symphony is classified as a middle-period work, and we’ll see this dualism in action.Beethoven Symphony No.
Yet, still with this yearning feeling about it, and not quite settled.4:53 – But, back to the main theme again, fifth iteration. Here, a little more lyrical. So Beethoven boggles both sides of my brain at once, which is yet mind-boggling in and of itself…3:26 – How do you follow up something once it’s gotten so huge? Cool off, and go in a different direction – here, Beethoven switches from A minor to A major. But i’ll say this, that this is a very complex emotional expression here, and this boggles my mind too. What is the emotion of this section? Is it anger? Desperation? A cry of the soul? I’ve listened to this many times, and i’m honestly not sure what it is. Lastly, with the violins soaring, timpani thundering, brass punctuating, lower strings lurking.
The main theme gets choppped up, reduced, passed around a lot, and it gets very quiet. The Baroque Era preceded the Classical Era, and it’s champion was Johann Sebastian Bach, who we will get to sometime.6:43 – After a repeated “hammering” on one note in some instruments, we’re led cleanly out of the fugue section back into the main theme, briefly (for a sixth half-iteration), and then it goes into the lyrical section again.7:40 – Something starts to stir here, kind of signaling that we’re at the coda section now. Beethoven takes the main idea and turns it into a fugue, which is neither Classical nor Romantic, but a Baroque idea.
Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance March No. Rachmaninov – Prelude in g minor, Op. THAT’s mind-boggling.Next: Not sure yet! Maybe one more Beethoven piece before I wrap up. And by the way, Beethoven was just about totally deaf when he composed this. This is my single favorite Beethoven work (if i’m allowed to count individual movements), and the more I listen to it the more I discover and appreciate it.
Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. Beethoven – Wrap-up and further listening Ravel – Boléro, and Intro to Impressionism/Modernism Ravel – Piano Concerto in G, I. Allegramente Ravel – Piano Concerto in G, II.
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Mozart – Piano Concerto No. Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro (Overture and excerpts) Mozart – Wrap-up and further listening
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