ExclusiveBeethoven: Symphony No. 7 In A Major (2nd Movement)

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The stringsmagazine.com writes: Beethoven’s 7th Symphony Allegretto: Greatest. Music. Ever?

200 years after its debut, the transcendent Allegretto of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, continues to captivate listeners. Why is the music world so hooked?

Beethoven completed the Seventh Symphony in May of 1812 and dedicated the work to the Russian Empress Elisabeth Aleksiev (known for her lavish court) and Count Moritz von Fries, a handsome young Viennese banker and a generous patron (also the dedicatee of two Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin, Op. 23 and Op. 24, and the String Quartet, Op. 29).

The work premiered in Vienna on December 8, 1813, at a charity concert for soldiers wounded five weeks earlier at the Battle of Hanau in the War of the Sixth Coalition, the confrontation between Austro-Bavarian troops and Napoleon’s fleeing army that allowed Franco forces to slip back onto French soil. The concert also included a performance of Beethoven’s minor orchestral work “Wellington’s Victory,” celebrating an earlier successful campaign against Joseph Bonaparte’s armies at the Battle of Vittoria in Spain.

At the premiere in Vienna, Beethoven conducted the orchestra led by his close friend the violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh (whose Razumovsky String Quartet premiered many of Beethoven’s chamber works, including several late quartets). Among the other notable musicians in the orchestra were violinist and composer Louis Spohr (who invented the chin rest), pianist Giacomo Meyerbeer (the most successful stage composer of his day), and the Italian double-bass virtuoso and composer Domenico Dragonetti.

The Seventh Symphony was a big hit—the orchestra honored the audience’s call for an encore of the Allegretto.

Beethoven himself called the piece “one of my best works.”

The video was captured by Simone Schlegel and was edited by Wenjing Ma.




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