The first movement begins with an introduction of splendor and elegance. Presto – Assai meno presto (trio) (F major, Trio in D major).78, 79 and 81 piano sonatas, Egmont, and what seems to be finishing up some stuff from earlier, like Fidelio, perhaps.Īnywho, the seventh symphony is in four movements, as follows, with a playing time (in Harnoncourt’s reading) of a little over 40 minutes: 70 piano trios, the fifth piano concerto, tenth string quartet, the op.
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This December concert was held a full five years (well, not quite, but almost to the day) after the benefit concert on Decemwhere Beethoven’s fifth and sixth symphonies were premiered. What a remarkable collection of humans this concert must have been. Wikipedia tells us, fascinatingly, that such renowned musicians as Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Louis Spohr, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Antonio Salieri and others were part of the orchestra for this performance.
The work was premiered on Decemin Vienna, under the composer’s baton, at a charity concert for wounded soldiers. The seventh symphony is dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries, to whom Beethoven dedicated also the op. The piece was composed between 18, while Beethoven was vacationing (perhaps just convalescing) in Teplice, now in the Czech Republic. It is undeniably one of the greatest symphonies ever written.
It hasn’t the fire-and-brimstone qualities of the fifth, nor the epic grandness of the ninth, but occupies this phenomenal sweet spot of a lightness and liveliness akin to the first two symphonies, with the maturity and depth of the by-now-mature composer. The seventh, it seems stupidly obvious to say, is somewhere between these two, seeing as it literally is. I shan’t talk in any detail about the ninth, but for its grandeur, scope, ambition and awe-inspiring nature, no symphony had up to that point come anywhere close to what Beethoven accomplished, and it would indeed be decades before another one would even attempt. It has its own special flavor of intensity. The fifth, with its beginning in C minor and ad astra per aspera trajectory, is a work of fire and triumph, a piece that (well, at least the first movement of which) everyone is familiar with. How does one describe the overwhelming power, the grandeur, the emotional, even spiritual, experience of such a moving work as the seventh symphony? Well, I’ll try.įirst, I’ll say that it is distinctly different from, say, the fifth or the ninth (which we have obviously yet to discuss).
The seventh symphony is one of Beethoven’s odd-numbered symphonies, which (with the exception of the first) seem to get much more attention (relatively speaking) than the second, fourth, or eighth (the sixth has done very well for itself, certainly). 600 was Mahler 9, 500 was Schoenberg’s violin concerto, 400 was Mahler’s Das Lied, 300 was Shostakovich’s violin concerto in Am.Īnd here’s where it gets intimidating to talk about Beethoven again.
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