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Most historians agree that the 19th century was defined by an event which had occurred at the end of the previous century: the French Revolution of 1789. But it wasn’t until 1803 that a musical work appeared that seemed to fully incarnate the new revolutionary spirit. Beethoven’s career emerged in the shadow of the French Revolution, and like other great pioneers of Romanticism, he was thrilled by the new political and cultural ideas that had been set in motion, and horrified by the terror and instability that had also been unleashed. Then, in 1800, Beethoven faced a huge personal crises. He realised that his hearing was in serious decline. In 1802 he had written a secret letter to his brothers (known as the Heligenstadt Testament) in which he confessed that he had considered suicide, and that “only art” prevented him from ending his life.
The following year, Beethoven embarked on his colossal and turbulent Eroica Symphony, his most ambitious work to date. The first movement is substantially longer than any symphonic movement yet composed. Beethoven composed an astonishingly rich and complex development section in the middle of the movement, and in the solar plexus of the development – at the very centre of the
movement - comes a moment of absolute crisis in which harmony, rhythm and orchestration seem to reach a point of catastrophe, out of which a new melody is born. This video explores that moment of catastrophe.
MUSICAL EXCERPTS USED IN THIS VIDEO
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 3, Eroica, first movement.
The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 3, Eroica, by Franz Liszt
Cyprien Katsaris, piano.
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Most historians agree that the 19th century was defined by an event which had occurred at the end of the previous century: the French Revolution of 1789. But it wasn’t until 1803 that a musical work appeared that seemed to fully incarnate the new revolutionary spirit. Beethoven’s career emerged in the shadow of the French Revolution, and like other great pioneers of Romanticism, he was thrilled by the new political and cultural ideas that had been set in motion, and horrified by the terror and instability that had also been unleashed. Then, in 1800, Beethoven faced a huge personal crises. He realised that his hearing was in serious decline. In 1802 he had written a secret letter to his brothers (known as the Heligenstadt Testament) in which he confessed that he had considered suicide, and that “only art” prevented him from ending his life.
The following year, Beethoven embarked on his colossal and turbulent Eroica Symphony, his most ambitious work to date. The first movement is substantially longer than any symphonic movement yet composed. Beethoven composed an astonishingly rich and complex development section in the middle of the movement, and in the solar plexus of the development – at the very centre of the
movement - comes a moment of absolute crisis in which harmony, rhythm and orchestration seem to reach a point of catastrophe, out of which a new melody is born. This video explores that moment of catastrophe.
MUSICAL EXCERPTS USED IN THIS VIDEO
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 3, Eroica, first movement.
The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Transcription of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 3, Eroica, by Franz Liszt
Cyprien Katsaris, piano.
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Edited by Ian Coulter ( iancoultermusic.com )
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