Beethoven and his nine symphonies . do p THE FUNEBAL MAECH. 73 After the welcome relief of this beautiful Intermezzo theorchestra returns to the minor key, and to the opening strainof the March. It does not, however, continue as it began,either in melody or treatment, but, soon closing in F minor,goes off into something like a regular fugue, with a subsidiarysubject (a)— No. 33. tr Viol. 2. Sf tr V ^ V »r. —which is pursued at some length, the full orchestra joiningby degrees with the most splendid and *religious effect. Inthis noble and expressive passage of fugal music we might beass
Beethoven and his nine symphonies . do p THE FUNEBAL MAECH. 73 After the welcome relief of this beautiful Intermezzo theorchestra returns to the minor key, and to the opening strainof the March. It does not, however, continue as it began,either in melody or treatment, but, soon closing in F minor,goes off into something like a regular fugue, with a subsidiarysubject (a)— No. 33. tr Viol. 2. Sf tr V ^ V »r. —which is pursued at some length, the full orchestra joiningby degrees with the most splendid and *religious effect. Inthis noble and expressive passage of fugal music we might beassisting at the actual funeral of the hero, with all that isgood and great in the nation looking on as he was loweredinto his tomb; and the motto might well be Tennysonswords on Wellington— In the vast cathedral leave him,God accept him, Christ receive him. Then occurs a passage as of stout resistance and determina-tion, the trumpets and horns appealing against Fate in theirloudest tones, and the basses adding a substratum of sternresolution. But it cannot last; the old grief is too strong,the original wail returns, even more hopeless than before;the basses again walk in darkness, the violins and flutes * I canmot resist the impression that this grand passage was more or lessthe origin of the remarkable Cathedral scene in Schumanns E flat Symphony, Grove.—Beethovens Nine Symphonies.—Novellos Edition.
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