Judging from historical comments, this work is not the best of Beethoven's symphonies in many aspects, but the composer himself still likes her better. In fact, the War Symphony was originally just an ordinary musical work, but in order to make it appear on the concert stage, Beethoven spent a lot of energy to adapt it into an orchestra, and even added the title of "Symphony". It can be seen that Beethoven was extremely indignant at Napoleon's betrayal of the revolution and his subsequent aggression against European countries. So when Napoleon was defeated, the composer also wanted to use music to describe his passionate mood at this moment and pass it on. Unfortunately, compared with Beethoven's other symphonies, the war symphony is too superficial. And after several years, Beethoven himself realized the roughness of this work, and even reviewed it himself. Although the work was a smash hit at that time, compared with the "treatment" of Beethoven's other nine symphonies being recorded hundreds of times, the recording of the War Symphony is relatively rare now. Although the War Symphony is only a short-lived work, it brought Beethoven a higher reputation in that year. 18 13 12.8 in the special concert of Beethoven's works, the composer personally went into battle as the conductor. Two major works were staged-Symphony No.7, written the year before, didn't really premiere until today, and Symphony of War, as a new work by Beethoven, was presented to the audience in Vienna for the first time. This is a very successful concert, and Beethoven's ability of composing and conducting is fully displayed in front of the audience! Symphony No.7 was well received and had to be played as a "small board" movement. People who are immersed in the joy of war victory show extraordinary enthusiasm for the war symphony. It is ridiculous to say that many music critics disdain the artistic value of the War Symphony, and Beethoven himself admits that this work has many "superficial" places. But it is precisely because of this work that Beethoven's position in Vienna and in the eyes of the European public has once again risen to a new height. At this time, Beethoven was almost full of glory and brilliance, which finally comforted the composer who had a hard life, at least his music could be affirmed by more people. At this time, Beethoven's creative desire was stimulated again, one new work after another came out, and concerts were required to be held one venue after another. 1865438+At the concert on February 7th, 2004, the Eighth Symphony premiered in Vienna, with an audience of more than 5000 people. Even now, this number is amazing! For the next month or two, war symphonies kept on playing, and it seemed that everyone could not get enough of them.
Beethoven's Symphony No.9 in D minor was completed in February 1824. There was no title at first, but later generations added a very awkward title, "Schiller's symphony of joy at last", which the British used to call "chorus symphony" It should be said that this is the first time to introduce human voice into symphony creation, which caused an uproar in the music industry at that time.
Beethoven has always liked Schiller's works, especially Ode to Joy. Legend has it that when 19 years old, Beethoven began to express this ode with music. Beethoven has been thinking about the structure of this symphony since 1809, and in his other works, the idea of chorus theme in the fourth movement is constantly reflected. But it wasn't until 1822 that I started writing formally, and it was completed two years later.
On May 7th, 1824 Vienna, this masterpiece in the history of human music premiered. Beethoven had to sit in the band because he was completely deaf and couldn't lead the singer. Because he was completely deaf before, he also made mistakes in conducting performances, so he only dared to sit with his back to the audience. The premiere of this great work was a great success, but Beethoven could not hear the warm applause and cheers of the audience at this time. It was not until a musician turned him around that he realized his success and was so excited that he burst into tears.
However, who remembers that when the premiere of this symphony was a great artistic success, after deducting the performance fee, the composer only got a poor 420 Goolden fee, not including the miscellaneous fees to be paid. When his friend handed Beethoven the bill, the composer got angry. ...
Beethoven was in an extremely difficult period of spiritual and material life at that time. 19 Europe in the early 1920s was the period when the four great powers decided to restore the feudal monarchy at the Vienna Conference after the collapse of Napoleon I's French Empire, and quickly established holy alliance to suppress Europe everywhere. Beethoven himself was poor and ill, so he had to take great pains to take care of his unworthy nephew. In this case, Beethoven still created the strongest sound of human joy!