The concert that featured the first performance of Symphony No. 7 in A major op. 92 became one of Beethoven\u2019s greatest successes. It took place in the great auditorium of the University on 8 December 1813; the repertoire included, apart from what was heralded as \u201can entirely new symphony,\u201d two marches \u2013 one by Dussek and one by Pleyel, both performed by M\u00e4lzl\u2019s mechanical trumpeter with orchestra, and Beethoven\u2019s short programme symphony Wellington`s Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria (Wellington\u2019s Victory or Battle of Vittoria), first written for panharmonicon, a musical contraption devised by the ingenious M\u00e4lzl, the inventor of the metronome. It was he who persuaded his friend the composer to adapt the piece for orchestra; it was he, too, who was the prime mover behind the charity concert for the benefit of war victims\u2019 families. After the recent Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, Vienna was still in a patriotic frenzy, and the audience were enthusiastic about this somewhat peculiar battle symphony, with its artillery percussion effects. Still, Beethoven\u2019s Seventh was also received with extraordinary applause \u2013 its second movement encored and the entire concert had to be repeated a few days later.
\nSymphony No. 7 has not accumulated as many romantic comments that would excite music-lovers\u2019 imagination as did the “Symphony of Fate”, i.e. the Fifth; yet from the point of view of great symphonic form, it is not less of a masterpiece. The punctuated and seemingly soaring rhythm of the first movement\u2019s main theme, craftily introduced after a long and misleading introduction, serves as the chief formative element. The domination of rhythm is also marked in the later movements of Seventh Symphony \u2013 not only in the rapid ones, the ravishingly dynamic scherzo and the exuberantly dancing finale, but also in the calm Movement Two. Its remarkably suggestive emotional climate is due in a large part to the pulse of a simple, two-bar rhythmical motif that underlies the first theme, entwined, in its successive recurrences, with a singing melody of an entirely different shape. This highly coherent combination of two different plots is one of the mysteries of Beethoven\u2019s composing craft and creative imagination: the first theme, with its measured strides, appears in Beethoven\u2019s sketchbook as early as in 1806 \u2013 several years before even an idea of Seventh Symphony.
\nAdam Walaci\u0144ski<\/b><\/p>\n
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