Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 貝多芬

貝多芬創作了九部交響曲，第一部於 1800 年問世，預示著新世紀的到來，最後一部於 1824 年完成。雖然他對管弦樂隊本身的構成幾乎未作改動，只是在必要時增加了一兩件歌劇院中常見的樂器，但他極大地擴展了海頓和莫札特時代發展起來的傳統形式，反映了一個巨大變革和動盪時期的個人和政治鬥爭。對同時代的人來說，他似乎是一位獨一無二的原創者，但對他的一些後繼者來說，他似乎將交響樂擴展到了令人生畏的程度"

作曲家: Beethoven Ludwig van
出版社: Alfred Music
風格: Masterwork
原文簡介:
Beethoven wrote nine symphonies, the first heralding the new century, in 1800, and the last completed in 1824. Although he made few changes to the composition of the orchestra itself, adding, when occasion demanded, one or two instruments more normally found in the opera-house, he expanded vastly the traditional form, developed in the time of Haydn and Mozart, reflecting the personal and political struggles of a period of immense change and turbulence. To his contemporaries he seemed an inimitable original, but to a number of his successors he seemed to have expanded the symphony to an intimidating extent.