ExclusiveBeethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A, Op. 92 (Lizst piano transcription)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A, Op. 92 (Lizst piano transcription). This beautiful piece was played by Lambis Vassiliadis. It has Creative Commons license (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Beethoven called the Symphony No. 7 his “most excellent symphony,” and one music critic of the time reported, “this symphony is the richest melodically and the most pleasing and comprehensible of all Beethoven symphonies.” On the dissenting side, Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826) heard the piece as evidence that its composer had lost his mind, and, Friedrich Wieck (1785–1873), a renowned piano teacher and Clara Schumann’s father, maintained that the music could only have been written by someone who was seriously intoxicated.

Regardless of Beethoven’s state of sanity—or his state of sobriety—this symphony is one of the composer’s most optimistic works, and it quickly won some powerful friends. Richard Wagner (1813–83), who often faced his own hostile critics, thought the piece was perfect dance music, calling it “the apotheosis of the dance.” In Wagner’s words, “if anyone plays the Seventh, tables and benches, cans and cups, the grandmother, the blind and the lame, aye, the children in the cradle fall to dancing.” Eager to prove this imaginative theory, Wagner once danced to the Symphony No. 7, accompanied by his colleague and father-in-law Franz Liszt (1811–86) performing his own piano reduction of the orchestral score. Source: britannica.com

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