MUS 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personal Distress, First Variation, Oboe
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Lecture 4 public and private i: the symphony in london and vienna. Setting the stage: vienna, early 19th century. Ludwig van beethoven: 1770 - 1827, german composer, 9 symphonies, bonn, employed at court as a teenager, vienna (1792) Studied with haydn: play in noble hopes, keyboard player & improvisor. Little to no concert life: 1800: no regular public concert, dependent on stipends, annuity: annual sum of money paid for life, multiple patrons. Financially dependent on nobility: 1798 deaf, personal distress. 55, "eroica: 1803 - 1804, dedicate: prince joseph franz lobkowitz. 3, "eroica", movement 1: seen as unusual / anomalous. Starts off normally, detours quickly and runs into conflicts. 3, "eroica", movement 4: theme and variations , ending -- unheard of at the time, with a twist, variations on a "fake" theme before actual theme is introduced. "eroica" symphony is an interesting case study on viennese musical life at time.
