BEETHOVEN BIRTHDAY BASH

WWFM – The Classical Network’s symphony marathon continues!

NOW PLAYING: Symphony No. 2 in D major (Vienna Philharmonic/Claudio Abbado)

Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony is distinguished by an energetic scherzo (replacing the standard minuet) and a finale full of musical jokes that ruffled the feathers of a good number of his contemporaries. One critic described it as “a hideously writhing, wounded dragon that refuses to die… writhing in its last agonies and, in the fourth movement, bleeding to death.”

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Portrait (1803), Christian Horneman