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PBHS Beethoven
You Gotta Know These Beethoven Works
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Symphony No. 5 in C minor | In popular culture it represents "fate knocking at the door" with its short-short-short-long rhythmic pattern of a descending major third followed by a descending minor third |
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, "Choral" | utilizes Schiller's "Ode to Joy" and his own texts. Typically takes 75 minutes to perform |
Symphony No. 6 in F major, "Pastoral" | depiction of rural scenes, the second movement identifies several woodwind motifs as being based on bird calls. |
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, "Eroica" | composed during his "heroic decade"; originally intended to title it as "Bonaparte"; Beethoven supposedly ripped the title page of the score upon hearing that Napoleon had declared himself emperor |
Fidelio | Leonore disguises herself as a boy named __ to rescue her husband Florestan from the prison of evil Pizarro. "Oh what joy," sung by prisoners. |
Missa Solmenis | dedicated to his patron, Austrian Archduke Rudolf |
Missa Solmenis | "solemn mass" includes Gloria and Credo movements |
"Emperor" concerto | Piano Concerto No.5 in E-flat major composed near the end of his "heroic decade" |
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major--"Emperor" concerto | Beethoven's last concerto and the only one he never performed publicly |
Moonlight Sonata | Piano concerto No.14 in C-Sharp Minor, quasi una Fantasia; sustain pedal held down throughout entire first movement |
Moonlight Sonata | Beethoven dedicated it to his pupil, Named after Beethoven's death for resembling Lake Lucerne in the moonlight |
Appassionata | Piano Sonata No.23 in F-minor; The final movement's coda is one of the most difficult passages in all of Beethoven's works |
Wellington's Victory or Battle of Vitoria sometimes called "Battle Symphony" | Originally written for panharmonicom, an automated orchestra; utilized "God Save the Queen" "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "Rule Britannia" calls for musket fire; generally regarded as Beethoven's WORST work |