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When Beethoven began composing his Symphony No. 7, Napoleon was planning his campaign against Russia.After Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (and possibly Symphony No. 5 as well), Symphony No. 7 seems to be another one of his musical confrontations with Napoleon, this time in the context of the European wars of liberation from years of Napoleonic domination.
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Andante — Allegretto: The piece opens with the Andante, which includes a cadenza styled passage after the fermata. [8] The Allegretto section uses a general rhyme of two sixteenth notes and one eighth note. This section climaxes at a sudden change in the meter with rhythmic diminution, which leads into the 6/8 section.
It consists of four movements: . Allegro (F major) Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando (B-flat major)Adagio molto e mesto - attacca ()"Thème Russe": Allegro (F major) The first movement is in an expansive sonata form, including a fugato in the development and lasting nearly twelve minutes even though it forgoes the then-customary repeat of the exposition.
The ballet is an allegory based on the mythical story of Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus in order to create mankind from clay.In the ballet, Prometheus finds mankind in a state of ignorance and decides to introduce the ideas of science and art to them, largely based on Beethoven's own support of the Enlightenment movement.
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Portrait of Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven, the composer's younger brother and dedicatee of the six bagatelles, c. 1841 by an unknown artist. A bagatelle, in Beethoven's usage, is a kind of brief character piece. [citation needed] The set comprises six short works, as follows: Andante con moto, Cantabile e compiacevole, G major, 3 4; Allegro, G ...
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