Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
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L'Auditori Lepant 150, 08013 Barcelona
Image courtesy of L'Auditori
This concert brings together two radically different masterpieces written by two of the most important composers in history.
Arnold Schönberg’s opera Erwartung (Expectation), written in 1909 for soprano and orchestra, narrates the slow, anguished feelings that the protagonist experiences while awaiting her lover’s arrival. With this work, the composer set Romanticism’s aesthetics aside and began to explore a new path: atonality.
In contrast, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, premiered in 1813, has always been associated with dance and fun. But it has also been noted that along with his Third Symphony – and possibly his Fifth as well – it's charged with political content; specifically, with the composer’s response to Napoleon’s tyranny. In fact, at the same concert where this work was premiered, he also premiered The Battle of Wellington, a piece commemorating the British victory over Joseph Bonaparte at Vitoria just a few months earlier.
The concert features the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra with Tamara Wilson, soprano, and Eun Sun Kim, conductor.
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