Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...at musical paintings, particularly at trivial ones. When he did this The Creation and The Seasons, by Haydn, frequently had to suffer, but not without Beethoven's gladly recognizing Haydn's higher merits.' That the explanatory titles for the different movements were an after-thought with Beethoven, is made evident by one of his sketch books, in which draughts for the first movement are superscribed ' Characteristic Symphony, Recollections of Country Life," and accompanied with the marginal note, " the hearer is to be allowed to find out the situation for himself." Furthermore, Beethoven assured Schindler that the imitations of the nightingale, the quail and the cuckoo, if imitations they can be called, were intended for nothing more than a joke. Indeed, the most cursory examination discloses the fact that they are not essentials--constructive features of the Larghetto--but details, which, however charming, are not vital parts of the movement. Highly interesting though it be to search in the Symphony for passages and figures which can be traced to definite prototypes, this procedure will add little, if anything, to the conception of the work as a whole. For transmission of the moods which the sympathetic contemplation and enjoyment of nature excited in Beethoven, he had at command means infinitely above those provided by imitation. The Pastoral Symphony was composed in the environs of Vienna, probably during the summer of 1808. It was performed for the first time on December 22d of the same year, together with the Fifth Symphony, which latter was on that occasion announced as the Sixth, while the Pastoral was designated as No. 5. The confusion as to the proper numbering of these two symphonies continued to exist in Vienna for no less than fift...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...at musical paintings, particularly at trivial ones. When he did this The Creation and The Seasons, by Haydn, frequently had to suffer, but not without Beethoven's gladly recognizing Haydn's higher merits.' That the explanatory titles for the different movements were an after-thought with Beethoven, is made evident by one of his sketch books, in which draughts for the first movement are superscribed ' Characteristic Symphony, Recollections of Country Life," and accompanied with the marginal note, " the hearer is to be allowed to find out the situation for himself." Furthermore, Beethoven assured Schindler that the imitations of the nightingale, the quail and the cuckoo, if imitations they can be called, were intended for nothing more than a joke. Indeed, the most cursory examination discloses the fact that they are not essentials--constructive features of the Larghetto--but details, which, however charming, are not vital parts of the movement. Highly interesting though it be to search in the Symphony for passages and figures which can be traced to definite prototypes, this procedure will add little, if anything, to the conception of the work as a whole. For transmission of the moods which the sympathetic contemplation and enjoyment of nature excited in Beethoven, he had at command means infinitely above those provided by imitation. The Pastoral Symphony was composed in the environs of Vienna, probably during the summer of 1808. It was performed for the first time on December 22d of the same year, together with the Fifth Symphony, which latter was on that occasion announced as the Sixth, while the Pastoral was designated as No. 5. The confusion as to the proper numbering of these two symphonies continued to exist in Vienna for no less than fift...
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