Beethoven and his nine symphonies . or what more touching than the passage in which he saysgood-bye in a tone of lingering affection as unmistakable asif he had couched it in words— No. 41. Viol. 1. Soli. if -r¥=r^. Fag. pp ppViol. 2 & Viola a passage specially interesting because it is a simple repetitionof the first bars of the figure which opened the movement(No. 33) put into half the original speed, a device which Bee-thoven has used elsewhere—for instance, at the end of theOverture to ? Coriolan, and in the oboe passage at the clearingoff of the storm in the Pastoral Symphony—with the hap
Beethoven and his nine symphonies . or what more touching than the passage in which he saysgood-bye in a tone of lingering affection as unmistakable asif he had couched it in words— No. 41. Viol. 1. Soli. if -r¥=r^. Fag. pp ppViol. 2 & Viola a passage specially interesting because it is a simple repetitionof the first bars of the figure which opened the movement(No. 33) put into half the original speed, a device which Bee-thoven has used elsewhere—for instance, at the end of theOverture to ? Coriolan, and in the oboe passage at the clearingoff of the storm in the Pastoral Symphony—with the happiesteffect. So ends this delightful movement, and in parting from it, itis well to remember that it is the last gay Finale that will bevouchsafed to us. Beethoven was now in his thirty-seventh mutual love which inspired these happy strains, and whichthrew so golden a light on the future, was soon clouded withobstacles; difficulties of an external and cruel kind set in, ill-health and the constant presence of deafness increased, andlife became a serious, solitary, painful conflict. Beauty therewill always be, and strength and nobility, but the gaiety isgone. The Finale of No. 5 is triumpha
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