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The Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, also known as the Fate Symphony (German: Schicksalssinfonie), is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1804 and 1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music and one of the most frequently played symphonies, [1] and it is widely considered one of the cornerstones of western music.
In fact the first recording of Beethoven's "Fifth" was three years earlier, by Friedrich Kark and the Odeon Symphony Orchestra in Berlin in 1910. [2] Both the Kark and Nikisch recordings were cut in performance and the first fully and wholly complete recording of Beethoven's Fifth was only made by Albert Coates around 1920.
Arguably Beethoven achieved the highest elaboration of this technique; the famous "fate motif" —the pattern of three short notes followed by one long one—that opens his Fifth Symphony and reappears throughout the work in surprising and refreshing permutations is a classic example.
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.
On my first full day there, I fulfilled a life-long ambition to hear music, including Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, "Eroica," in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, acoustically one of the most expressive ...
The 5th symphony is particularly renowned for the opening theme of its first movement, which takes the 'motivic saturation' previously seen in the 1st String Quartet's opening movement to extreme lengths, appearing in virtually every bar of the movement.
The hand-copied parts used for the premiere of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. They include corrections hand-entered by the composer, and are on display in the Lobkowitz family museum in Prague. By all accounts, the execution of the music was inferior. One review targeted the orchestra, saying that it "could be considered lacking in all respects". [19]
Symphony No. 5 (Mozart) in B-flat major (K. 22) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1765; Symphony No. 5 (Nielsen) (Op. 50, FS 97) by Carl Nielsen, 1920–22; Symphony No. 5 (Penderecki) (Korean) by Krzysztof Penderecki, 1991–92; Symphony No. 5 (Piston) by Walter Piston, 1954; Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev) in B-flat major (Op. 100) by Sergei Prokofiev ...