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   When is a symphony played?

   • The symphony plays a crucial part in many orchestras’ repertoire. It is usually played on the penultimate night of the BBC Proms concert series, and Germany’s Bayreuth Festival always opens with the symphony.

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   What was Beethoven's Final Symphony?

   • The work was Beethoven’s final complete symphony, and it represents an important stylistic bridge between the Classical and Romantic periods of Western music history. Symphony No. 9 premiered on May 7, 1824, in Vienna, to an overwhelmingly enthusiastic audience, and it is widely viewed as Beethoven’s greatest composition.

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   Where did the word symphony come from?

   • The word stems from the Greek orchēstra, the circular part of the ancient Greek theatre in front of the proscenium in which the dancers and instrumentalists performed. Antecedents of the modern symphony orchestra appeared about 1600, the most notable early example being the ensemble required in the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi’s opera Orfeo.

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   Why is Symphony No 9 so important?

   • Symphony No. 9 broke many patterns of the Classical style of Western music to foreshadow the monolithic works of Gustav Mahler, Richard Wagner, and other composers of the later Romantic era. Its orchestra was unusually large, and its length—more than an hour—was extraordinary.

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   3 days ago · Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" can also be applied to non-Western art musics.

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   May 7, 2024 · Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is one of the the most popular concertos ever written and his Symphony No. 6, the ‘Pathétique’, is one of the great symphonic masterpieces of all time. He...

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   Apr 23, 2024 · Although applied to various ensembles found in Western and non-Western music, orchestra in an unqualified sense usually refers to the typical Western music ensemble of bowed stringed instruments complemented by wind and percussion instruments that, in the string section at least, has more than one player per part.

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   May 7, 2024 · May 7, 20245:59 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. Audio will be available later today. Symphony No. 9 in D minor, was the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822...

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   May 10, 2024 · San Francisco Symphony music director Esa-Pekka Salonen resigns. March 14, 2024 • Citing creative differences with the orchestra's board, the famed Finnish conductor and composer plans to leave ...

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   5 days ago · Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, orchestral work in four movements by Ludwig van Beethoven, remarkable in its day not only for its grandness of scale but especially for its final movement, which includes a full chorus and vocal soloists who sing a setting of Friedrich Schiller ’s poem “An die Freude” (“ Ode to Joy”).

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   May 1, 2024 · Cynthia Dickison. May 1, 2024. On May 7, 1824, an audience in Vienna heard for the first time the symphony that has become one of the most beloved works in the classical canon: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Commissioned by the Philharmonic Society of London in 1817, the composer’s final complete symphony is regarded as a masterwork.

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