Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, an appreciation by Leon Botstein발음듣기
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, an appreciation by Leon Botstein
Some of it is pretty true, that he was quite eccentric and mad and impolite, and unpredictable.발음듣기
It's very important to remember, because a musician who is going deaf is losing his purpose for life.발음듣기
This symphony is very closely related to thoughts of suicide that the composer had, which he confided in a famous private letter.발음듣기
He was also a great virtuoso, which means he expected to have a brilliant career and he came from a pretty tough family with a drunken father who was a musician.발음듣기
He wanted to be the next big star in this world of classical music, which was dominated by patrons, kings and queens and counts and royalty and aristocracy. And they were all amateurs.발음듣기
People who subscribed to music magazines, but there was no public concerts in the ordinary sense. He put on concerts himself.발음듣기
In fact, the concert that was done when the Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was premiered, together with the Sixth Symphony, it was a public concert.발음듣기
We think of classical music always as people listening to things that they already know, that are old.발음듣기
In addition, there was a tradition of symphonies that were sort of battle symphonies that entertained people.발음듣기
There were no moving pictures, so people sat around and they half-listened to something tell a story in a very tone-painting way, illustrative way.발음듣기
Now he comes up with the idea he's going to do something that is going to impress his patrons, and that also expresses, in a way, his own sensibility.발음듣기
So his personal subjective feelings becomes the subject of the symphony in his mind, which is why the first great review of this symphony called it really the high point of romanticism, because here is this subjective personality expressing himself, and he does it with utter brilliance and economy.발음듣기
You take the simplest musical idea, four notes, and can you make a castle out of four notes? And indeed he does.발음듣기
The first movement, which is its most famous movement, is a dense, absolutely compact, brilliant one long sentence, with no periods, no commas.발음듣기
He didn't want the soup and then came the main course, and then some other course, then came the dessert.발음듣기
There's sort of a tick-tock of the first movement becomes really the tick-tock of the second movement, which becomes the tick-tock of the third movement, which becomes the pulse of the last movement. And he does something.발음듣기
He doesn't have four pieces to put together and four movements. He's got only three, really.발음듣기
And the first is so startling, goes by so quickly, by the time you recover from the second, you're in the last piece, which are the third and fourth together, right?발음듣기
And it ends in a blaze of glory, sort of these hammer blows of these C-major chords at the end.발음듣기
There are generations where it was performed very slowly, and then, there is now a new fashion, very quickly, the first movement.발음듣기
It is simply baffling how imaginative the composer is in using so little, and how unexpected the rhythmic punctuation, the use of silence, and the dramatic aspect of it.발음듣기
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