When Beethoven's Seventh Symphony was premiered, after the second movement, they clapped so much that they had the repeat the second movement and do it again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.
Beethoven's fourth and seventh symphonies have a certain amount in common. Well, of course they're both written by Beethoven, but besides that, I would say their overall effect and idea is to provide the listener with an incredible sense of joy.
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path.
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.
Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.
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