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Symphony No. 4 (Beethoven)

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The work is dedicated to "the Silesian nobleman Count Franz von Oppersdorff". Although Oppersdorff had paid for exclusive rights to the work for its first six months, his orchestra did not give the first performance. The symphony was premiered in March 1807 at a private concert in Vienna at the town
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in the first movement. This typically makes a difference of about 2½ minutes. Examples from the versions mentioned in the Recordings section are Klemperer and Monteux, who play the repeat and whose first movements last for 12:28 and 12:37 respectively, compared with Toscanini and Karajan, who omit
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The symphony has been recorded, in the studio and in concert performances, more than a hundred times. Early recordings were mostly issued as single sets, sometimes coupled with another Beethoven symphony, such as the Second. More recently, recordings of the Fourth have often been issued as part of
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First a slow movement full of short disjointed unconnected ideas, at the rate of three or four notes per quarter of an hour; then a mysterious roll of the drum and passage of the violas, seasoned with the proper quantity of pauses and ritardandos; and to end all a furious finale, in which the only
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The main theme returns in an elaborate variation, followed by a middle episode and the reappearance of the varied main theme, now played by the flute. A regular recapitulation is followed by a coda that makes a final allusion to the main theme, and the timpani bring the movement to an end with the
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major. The tempo marking is Allegro ma non troppo; this, like that of the third movement, is an afterthought on Beethoven's part: the original tempo indication in the autograph score is an unqualified "allegro". The composer added (in red chalk) "ma non troppo" – i.e. but not too much so. The
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house of Prince Lobkowitz, another of Beethoven's patrons. The first public performance was at the Burgtheater in Vienna in April 1808. The orchestral parts were published in March 1809, but the full score was not printed until 1821. The manuscript, which was for a time owned by
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The fee is variously described as "350 florins" and "500 gulden". Beethoven later received a separate fee of 1500 gulden from the publisher the Wiener Kunst- und Industrie-Comptoir. That sum covered the publishing rights to the symphony together with the
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requisite is that there should be no ideas for the hearer to make out, but plenty of transitions from one key to another – on to the new note at once! never mind modulating! – above all things, throw rules to the winds, for they only hamper a genius.
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In a 2012 study of the Symphony the musicologist Mark Ferraguto casts doubt on whether the phrase can reliably be attributed to Schumann. Ferraguto suggests that it originated in Grove's gloss on, or misremembering of, words actually used by
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More recently some conductors of modern symphony or chamber orchestras have recorded the Fourth (along with other Beethoven symphonies), drawing to a greater or lesser degree on the practices of the specialist groups. Among these are
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for this symphony, and this symphony would be played – often – as an example of that composer's great work. As it is, for Beethoven, it is a work in search of an audience. It's the least known and least appreciated of the
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in most printed scores, though not in Beethoven's original manuscript. It is marked "Allegro vivace", and was originally to have been "allegro molto e vivace", but Beethoven deleted the "molto" in the autograph score. His
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Other critics were less hostile, praising the composer's "richness of ideas, bold originality and fullness of power" though finding the Fourth and the works premiered alongside it "rough diamonds". Beethoven's biographer
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called the Fourth sublime and regretted that in Paris it was not merely neglected but denigrated. In 1896 Grove commented that the work had "met with scant notice in some of the most prominent works on Beethoven".
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The symphony is in four movements. It is predominantly genial in tone, and has tended to be overshadowed by the weightier Beethoven symphonies that preceded and followed it – the
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The quiet introduction is thirty-eight bars long, and is followed by a fortissimo repetition of the chord of F, leading into the allegro vivace first subject of the main,
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the four movements consist of 691, 247, 442 and 473 bars; the Fourth consists of 498, 104, 397 and 355 – making the Fourth 499 bars shorter than its predecessor.
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the repeat and respectively take 9:57 and 9:55. The total playing time of the symphony in these four recordings is 35:49, 34:10, 29:59, and 31:09 respectively.
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Beethoven had to write to Oppersdorff apologising for this breach of their agreement. It is not known whether Oppersdorff's orchestra ever performed the work.
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The late 1950s and early 1960s saw the first recordings based on recent musicological ideas of authentic early-19th-century performance practice:
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of Beethoven's contemporaries had written this symphony, it would be considered that composer's masterwork, and that composer would be remembered
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later recalled the Fourth as being a great success from the outset, although later scholars have expressed reservations about his reliability.
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Notes to CD sets Parlophone 0724356679559 (2003), Decca 00028948088942 (2015), Parlophone 5099972333457 (2013), and DG 00028947771579 (2007)
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and the Fifth. In a study of the Fourth written in 2012 Mark Ferraguto quotes a 1994 description of the work as "a rich, verdant valley of
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is said to have called the Fourth Symphony "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants", and it was an important influence on his
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As usual by this stage of the composer's career, the symphony divided opinion among those who heard early performances. In 1809
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In general the symphony is sunny and cheerful, with light instrumentation that for some listeners recalls the symphonies of
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As well as the tempi adopted by the performers, the playing time is affected by the decision to play or omit the
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by the strings, followed by a long-held chord in the wind, during which the strings move slowly in the minor.
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greatly admired the work it has not become as widely known among the music-loving public as the
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below modern concert pitch. Among conductors of such versions of the Fourth Symphony have been
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London literary gazette and journal of belles lettres, arts, sciences, etc. for the year 1831
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expressiveness … poised between the two staggering yang peaks of the Third and the Fifth".
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Greenberg, Part 2: Lecture 14: "Symphony No. 4: Consolidation of the New Aesthetic IV"
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recordings, made in the era of 78 rpm discs or mono LPs, include a 1933 set with
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Tovey calls the first episode (or second subject) "a still more subtle melody":
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Beethoven spent the summer of 1806 at the country estate of his patron,
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Beethoven's Fourth Symphony: Reception, Aesthetics, Performance History
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In the 20th century, writers continued to contrast the Fourth with the
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last appearance of the rhythmic theme with which the movement began.
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Beethoven at about the time of the composition of the Fourth Symphony
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world of the Second Symphony prompted another work in similar vein.
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LP era of the mid-1950s to the 1970s include those conducted by
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described it as a "mysterious introduction which hovers around
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International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music
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of Beethoven's nine symphonies, it has a slow introduction.
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Performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra, courtesy of
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movement is in a playful style that the composer called
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Leonard Bernstein Discusses Beethoven's Fourth Symphony
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the top recommended version was in this category: the
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Beethoven had been working on what later became his
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Index

Beethoven's 4th
Beethoven's 4th (film)
painting of young white man, clean shaven, with shortish dark hair
B major
Op.
symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven
Prince Lobkowitz
Burgtheater
Third Symphony (Eroica)
Fifth
Berlioz
Mendelssohn
Schumann
Prince Lichnowsky
Silesia
Franz von Oppersdorff
Oberglogau
Second Symphony
Fifth Symphony
George Grove
Pastoral
Prince Lobkowitz
Count Razumovsky
Haydnesque
Felix Mendelssohn
Berlin State Library
flute
oboes
clarinets

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