The musicologist Donald Francis Tovey beautifully encapsulated the way that originality is embedded in the very heart of Beethoven’s writing here: “The orchestra is not only symphonic ...
Though less popular than its sibling on the other side of intermission, the Symphony No. 4 boasts writing of real wit and originality. Completed in 1806, four years after the Heiligenstadt Testament ...
In 2022, restitution was made to the descendants, who agreed to sell the manuscript to the Beethoven House. The caretaker of the collection, Julia Ronge, expressed her gratitude "that the Petschek ...
The symphony presents as a sort of workshop for Beethoven, who was just beginning to establish his own symphonic style. The composer begins to push (without breaking) the bounds of classical symphonic ...
On Thursday evening, the BSO and music director Andris Nelsons launched the central series of concerts of the Beethoven and Romanticism festival Quick! Picture Beethoven in your mind. I wager you ...