Beethoven serenade flute program notes

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He composed piano sonatas and large ensemble works that were quickly accepted for publication, but sales were modest at first, and like any aspiring young composer, he wrote pieces for occasions for small groups of players and for various combinations of instruments to earn living expenses.

The bulk of his compositions during his early Viennese period focused on works for piano and the usual instrument groupings, but he did compose for non-traditional combinations. The Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola, Op 25 is one such work, unusual in that the piece has no bass line.

Completed on November 4, , and first performed at a private concert by Moscow Conservatory students just a month later, the Serenade received its premiere public performance in St. It was an immediate success. Founding conductor Robert Staffanson led a performance of the second movement in May Despite the turbulent times of its composition, the Seventh looks forward to the postwar Congress of Vienna: it dances.

Beethoven seems to have limited the use of melody—at times there is no melody at all, but simply the repetition of a single pitch—allowing listeners to concentrate on the rhythmic force. The work opens with a lengthy Poco sostenuto —the longest of any symphonic introduction yet written.

A single repeated note leads directly into the headlong rush of the lively, dancing Vivace , with strong dotted jig-like rhythms and sudden dynamic and harmonic shift. A quiet, distinctive rhythmic stamp long, short-short, long, long becomes the basis on which Beethoven builds a rich web of countermelodies, before easing back into the sigh with which it began.

The third movement is, in all but name, a scherzo of expansive proportions. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.

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Contents 1 Performances 1. Editor First edition. Pub lisher. Plate B. Editing: re-sampled to dpi, converted to black and white tif files, de-skewed, and set uniform margins. Braunschweig: Henry Litolff's Verlag , No. Plate A-C.