BEETHOVENS FIFTH SYMPHONY GIVEN WORLD PREMIERE IN VIENNA (THC) Today in history Dec 22 1808 If the initial reviews failed to recognize it as one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, one needs to understand the adverse conditions under which the work was first heard. The concert venue was freezing cold; it was more than two hours into a mammoth four-hour program before the piece began; and the orchestra played poorly enough that day to force the nearly deaf composer—also acting as conductor and pianist—to stop the ensemble partway into one passage and start again from the very beginning. It was, all in all, a very inauspicious beginning for what would soon become the worlds most recognizable piece of classical music: Ludwig van Beethovens Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67—the Fifth Symphony—which received its world premiere today. youtube/watch?v=7jh-E5m01wY
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