The movement ends with almost the same woodwind chord that began it. The dream (a beautiful poetic image? true love? life itself?) is leaving.
Now the sound of the “steps” is fading away. The teacher explains, “Look how it works!” The pupil answers happily, “Yes, I see! Great!” Nobody could ignore it… About 7:10, the mutual understanding between the two themes has been reached at last. The perfect melody continues to call though. That’s a moment of frustration – the ideal is unattainable and will always be unattainable. The accompaniment is enthusiastically echoing the lovely melody as well as it can.īetween 6:03 and 6:25, the impassioned, fitful music is playing. That’s exactly how awkwardly we attempt to fulfill our dreams…Īfter 4:11, the movement is rapidly building in intensity – it may seem to us that we are running up a flight of stairs. The second melody sounds as if it is trying to repeat the first, yet cannot. The celestial melody freely rolling forward in soft waves. Here it is, the dream, we just need to take it! The leading melody is blooming in all its glory. That’s how big dreams come.Īt 0:48 in the video, the conductor’s putting his finger to his lips. The chord is slowing down, the lower strings are intoning the incantatory rhythm – long, short, short, two long. The movement opens with an invocatory chord from the woodwinds. It inwardly speaks to you, no matter whether you are accustomed to classical music or not. The main secret of Beethoven’s Allegretto lies in its clarity. The Allegretto lasts around 7 minutes, while a typical performance of the whole work (I hope you’ll find and listen to all its movements later) takes 40 minutes. Let’s listen to this captivating fragment together. It remains incredibly popular and is often performed separately from the complete piece. The second movement of the opus, the Allegretto, made an especially profound impression on the audience people wanted it to be repeated. The Viennese public received the Seventh Symphony very warmly.
In spite of the fact the composer could hardly hear what was going on around him, that day Ludwig van Beethoven conducted himself and his symphony passionately – he tore his arms vehemently asunder, jumped into the air (2). In this symphony Beethoven seems to have emerged into a region where the spiritual struggle that had obsessed him for years is finally done with… Conflict and anguish, to say nothing of despair, are completely absent from this symphony. Sullivan, the author of Beethoven – His Spiritual Development, remarked (1), The energetic Wellington’s Victory, firmly rooted in historical context, presaged the inevitable completion of the Napoleonic era the powerful Seventh told about the triumphs of the human heart.Īs J.W.N. These two works were combined successfully – they both sounded quite vigorous. The Seventh premiered along with his Wellington’s Victory at a charity concert that was given to benefit soldiers wounded in the battle of Hanau. Beethoven completed the piece next spring but presented the new composition to the public only on December 8, 1813. It was the summer, or maybe the fall of 1811. 92) while staying in the Bohemian spa city of Teplice – he underwent treatment there. Ludwig van Beethoven began his Seventh Symphony (Op. The composer’s deafness was growing worse a number of other ailments poisoned his life… Beethoven kept working, nevertheless, and nobody would say his new pieces were the music of a broken spirit. His attempt to marry – far from his first! – had ended in failure. Ludwig van Beethoven faced a kind of crisis too.
By 1811, Austria, exhausted from the Napoleonic Wars, was in a situation of crisis.
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