Beethoven; a critical biography . re orchestralproduction (excepting the two masterworks of 1822 and1823) belongs to ten short years between 1804 and 1815;seven symphonies, nine overtures, seven concertos or instru-mental pieces, four pieces for orchestra with chorus, fivepieces for military music, three melodramas, an opera, anoratorio, and a mass. Before these, there was nothing butthe First Symphony; after them, only two colossal worksin which the orchestra serves rather as a means than as anend. It was necessary to establish this fact for the con-fusion of those who claim to find in Beetho
Beethoven; a critical biography . re orchestralproduction (excepting the two masterworks of 1822 and1823) belongs to ten short years between 1804 and 1815;seven symphonies, nine overtures, seven concertos or instru-mental pieces, four pieces for orchestra with chorus, fivepieces for military music, three melodramas, an opera, anoratorio, and a mass. Before these, there was nothing butthe First Symphony; after them, only two colossal worksin which the orchestra serves rather as a means than as anend. It was necessary to establish this fact for the con-fusion of those who claim to find in Beethoven absoluteunity of style. From a technical point of view, the observations to bemade in support of the total change of manner would be sonumerous as to exceed the limits of this volume. We shallcontent ourselves with noting the considerable modificationswhich the plan of the Sonata underwent without departingfrom the traditional route (with Beethoven the sonata tendsto become a poem in two cantos), and the changes in the [ 72 1. BEETHOVEN IN lbl4 Engraved by Blasius Hofel, after a pencil sketch by Louis Letronne(The engraving was retouched from the life.) LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN interior structure of the Symphony, which now calls to itsaid instruments until then unemployed (two and three horns,and the trombones), and anon celebrates the appearance ofa descriptive piece (the Sixth Symphony), or the additionof a third theme (Third Symphony), or the interconnectionand reappearance of themes of one piece in another (theFifth and Sixth Symphonies). And now the moment has come for us to say, paraphrasingthe introductory recitative in the finale of the Ninth:Friends, let us leave this style; may songs arise, yet morebeautiful, striving ever higher towards the Kingdom of God! [73] THIRD PERIOD From 1814 to 1827 VHIS LIFE My dear, honored friend! You may think, and notwithout cause, that I have lost all remembrance of you;but it only appears so. My brothers death occasioned megreat sorro
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