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Beethoven's Symphony No 1: which recording is best?

In 1800, when Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his First Symphony at the Burgtheater in central Vienna, there were those naysayers who wondered if there was any future in the symphony. Haydn had written ...
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The Beethoven Symphony Series 1: The Nine Symphonies

The Fourth Symphony provided the listening public relief after the monumental 'Eroica' Symphony, and most popular Fifth Symphony. The Eighth Symphony follows the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Symphonies, ...
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Half Six Fix - Beethoven Symphony No 1 at the Barbican

This article was written by one of our Young Reporters, a scheme that gives 14 to 18-year-old school students a chance to write for a real newspaper. Find out more at the Young Reporter website. The ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

QSO: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1

After spending most of the year apart, predominantly playing chamber music instead of the much larger orchestral concert, opera and ballet repertoire that they usually play, the musicians of the ...
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Beethoven's Symphony No 1, introduced by Sir Roger Norrington

Over the next nine weeks, nine of the world's leading Beethoven conductors will each explore a Beethoven symphony. We begin with Sir Roger Norrington on Symphony No 1... The piece is dedicated to ...
BBC

Programme Note: Beethoven - Symphony No. 1 in C major

With his First Symphony Beethoven staked his claim as a rightful heir to the Classical symphonic tradition. After its premiere, at a typically gargantuan benefit concert in Vienna’s Burgtheater on 2 ...
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Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony

The Phoenix Symphony and The Phoenix Symphony Chorus under Maestro Tito Muñoz perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the Choral ...
The New York Times

This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook John Eliot Gardiner’s period-instrument survey at Carnegie Hall was a reintroduction to some of the world’s most ...
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On this day in history, December 22, 1808, Beethoven's triumphant Fifth Symphony debuts in Vienna

Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...
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A computer just finished Beethoven's most infamous symphony, 196 years later

When Ludwig von Beethoven left us in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony ...
PBS

The Problem with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Learn why the Philadelphia Orchestra had to cut Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony from their program and replace it with his Sixth. Tan Dun on Preserving the Nu Shu Language Composer Tan Dun explores the ...