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The symphony is clearly indebted to Beethoven's predecessors, particularly his teacher Joseph Haydn as well as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but nonetheless has characteristics that mark it uniquely as Beethoven's work, notably the frequent use of sforzandi, as well as sudden shifts in tonal centers that were uncommon for traditional symphonic form (particularly in the third movement), and the ...
Title page of Beethoven's symphonies from the Gesamtausgabe. The list of compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven consists of 722 works [1] written over forty-five years, from his earliest work in 1782 (variations for piano on a march by Ernst Christoph Dressler) when he was only eleven years old and still in Bonn, until his last work just before his death in Vienna in 1827.
Franz Liszt in 1884 – twenty years after his completion of the symphony transcriptions. Beethoven Symphonies (French: Symphonies de Beethoven), S.464, are a set of nine transcriptions for solo piano by Franz Liszt of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies 1–9. They are among the most technically demanding piano music ever written.
The Symphony No. 3 in E ♭ major, Op. 55, (also Italian Sinfonia Eroica, Heroic Symphony; German: Eroica, pronounced [eˈʁoːikaː] ⓘ) is a symphony in four movements by Ludwig van Beethoven. One of Beethoven's most celebrated works, the Eroica symphony is a large-scale composition that marked the beginning of the composer's innovative ...
Symphony No. 1, Op. 4 (1865-67) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 "Polish", Op. 29 (1875) Donald Francis Tovey: ... The Symphony in Beethoven's Vienna ...
The Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the Pastoral Symphony (German: Pastorale [1]), is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and completed in 1808. One of Beethoven's few works containing explicitly programmatic content, [2] the symphony was first performed alongside his fifth symphony in the Theater an der Wien on 22 December 1808 in a four-hour concert.
Symphony in E-flat, Op. 1 (1907) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony in E-flat (1889–92) (reconstruction of the composer's intentions — the first movement became the third piano concerto, two other movements became an Andante and Finale for the concerto later arranged by Sergei Taneyev )
Bryan, Paul, Johann Waṅhall, Viennese Symphonist: His Life and His Musical Environment Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press (1997) Hill, George R.: "Thematic Index" in The Symphony 1720–1840 Series B - Volume X, ed. Barry S. Brooks (New York & London, 1981) ISBN 0-8240-3807-X