Pieces:
- Messiaen – Les Offrandes oubliées
- Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 23
- Tristan Murail – Le Désenchantement du monde
- Beethoven – Symphony No. 2
Venue: Avery Fisher Hall, Manhattan, NY
Performers: David Robertson, Conductor; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano
Beethovens second symphony was one of the final early Beethoven works, his deafness was already taking him so his future compositions wouldn’t be the same. Around this time in Beethovens life he had revealed his deafness, and he was also coming to terms with it. The symphony is in D major, but like other Beethoven works it didn’t fit the standard form of other symphony’s. Beethovens second symphony is one of the least performed out of all his other symphony’s.
Beethoven was a composer during the bridge between previously dominate classical era music and to the new genre romantic music. Since he was at this bridge in genres his music didn’t fit into the standards of each period they were all in between or even just uniquely composed to Beethovens personal preferences, and maybe that is why he ignore common structure, and this breaking away made him more unique and popular, even though not all his works are praised.
Cooper, Barry. Beethoven. Boston: Oxford UP, 2000. Print.