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Beethoven Symphony No. 2
Beethoven Symphony No. 2
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
May 3, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
We continue the Beethoven cycle this week with his underrated 2nd symphony. Written at the height of Beethoven's despair over his increasing deafness, you might think that the symphony would be a dark and stormy one, but instead Beethoven writes one of his most relentlessly cheerful pieces. He even invented a whole new type of movement called a scherzo (joke) to heighten the mood. How do we account for this incongruity between life and art? We'll talk about all this and more as the journey continues..
Released:
May 3, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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