Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Hello guys! Today I have a very special treat for you: My piano student Lucy and I performing the 1st movement of Beethoven‘s famous 5th Symphony. It has been a lot of fun and also a lot of work! We love the energy and beauty of this piece.

Lucy has been playing the piano for 3 years now and the last two years with me. In this time she gathered a considerable repertoire of a Mozart Sonata, several other Sonatinas, Inventions by Bach, New Age Piano Music by Federsel and Tiersen, Romantic Piano Music by Chopin, Brahms, Burgmüller as well as the latest Chinese repertoire piece ”Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon“. Lucy also gathered skills in sight reading and music theory and did a chamber music project with violin together.

Hungarian Dance Four Hand Piano: youtu.be/U3qMENHC4Uk
Beethoven Sonata op.10 no.1: youtu.be/u2HMg6SeXmc
My relaxing Ghibli collection: youtu.be/PzUiA9mNVNk

The Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 67, was written between 1804 and 1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music and one of the most frequently played symphonies, and it is widely considered one of the cornerstones of western music. First performed in Vienna's Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterward. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as "one of the most important works of the time". As is typical of symphonies during the Classical period, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony has four movements.

It begins with a distinctive four-note "short-short-short-long" motif. The symphony, and the four-note opening motif in particular, are known worldwide, with the motif appearing frequently in popular culture, from disco versions to rock and roll covers, to uses in film and television.

Like Beethoven's Eroica (heroic) and Pastorale (rural), Symphony No. 5 was given an explicit name besides the numbering, though not by Beethoven himself. It became popular under "Schicksals-Sinfonie" (Fate Symphony), and the famous five bar theme was called the "Schicksals-Motiv" (Fate Motif). This name is also used in translations.

The Fifth Symphony premiered on 22 December 1808 at a mammoth concert at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna consisting entirely of Beethoven premieres, and directed by Beethoven himself on the conductor's podium. The concert lasted for more than four hours. The two symphonies appeared on the programme in reverse order: the Sixth was played first, and the Fifth appeared in the second half. The programme was as follows:

The Sixth Symphony
Aria: Ah! perfido, Op. 65
The Gloria movement of the Mass in C major
The Fourth Piano Concerto (played by Beethoven himself)
(Intermission)
The Fifth Symphony
The Sanctus and Benedictus movements of the C major Mass
A solo piano improvisation played by Beethoven
The Choral Fantasy

Beethoven dedicated the Fifth Symphony to two of his patrons, Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz and Count Razumovsky. The dedication appeared in the first printed edition of April 1809.

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