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The Fantasy for piano, vocal soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80, usually called the Choral Fantasy, was composed in 1808 by then 38-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven intended the Fantasy to serve as the concluding work for the benefit concert he put on for himself on 22 December 1808; the performers consisted of vocal soloists ...
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According to Sutton, the improvised piano fantasia is the work that was later written out and published as the Fantasia in G minor [fr; scores], Beethoven's Op. 77 (1809). [8] The Choral Fantasy was the last of the works to be composed; it was barely finished in time for the concert, leaving insufficient opportunity for rehearsal.
Only slightly altered (with masculine rather than feminine endings), the theme appears in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy opus 80 for piano, chorus and orchestra, from 1808. The Choral Fantasy version is in turn widely viewed as a foreshadowing of the "Ode to Joy" melody employed in the final movement of the Ninth Symphony (1824). [2]
Beethoven had difficulty describing the finale himself; in letters to publishers, he said that it was like his Choral Fantasy, Op. 80, only on a much grander scale. We might call it a cantata constructed round a series of variations on the "Joy" theme. But this is rather a loose formulation, at least by comparison with the way in which many ...
Beethoven – Choral Fantasy (Beethoven) Brahms – Academic Festival Overture; Dvořák – String Quartet No. 8; Elgar – The Spirit of England; Fauré – Pelléas et Mélisande; Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 6; Prokofiev – Violin Sonata No. 1; Reger – Zwölf Stücke, Op. 80; Schumann – Piano Trio No. 2
Beethoven Choral Fantasy, Op.80 (Last mvt – Allegro) Brahms Feldeinsamkeit, Op.86/2 Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp (2nd mvt – Interlude) Haydn Quartet in B minor, Op.33/1 (Finale – presto) Puccini Un bel di (from Madama Butterfly) Reynaldo Hahn L'heure exquise Schubert Moment Musical in C-sharp minor, D. 780/4 13 Jan 2001
Beethoven's Choral Fantasy - Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion, conductor Roger Désormière, in public and broadcast from the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 20 May 1948. [ 7 ] Cortège Burlesque , last movement of the piano concerto ( Concert dans un Parc ) by André Lavagne .