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The Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the Pastoral Symphony (German: Pastorale [1]), is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and completed in 1808. One of Beethoven's few works containing explicitly programmatic content, [2] the symphony was first performed alongside his fifth symphony in the Theater an der Wien on 22 December 1808 in a four-hour concert.
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Symphony No. 6 (Haydn) in D major (Hoboken 1/6, Le matin) by Joseph Haydn, 1761; Symphony No. 6 (Michael Haydn) in C major (Perger 4, Sherman 6, MH 64) by Michael Haydn, 1764; Symphony No. 6 (Henze) by Hans Werner Henze, 1969; Symphony No. 6 (Hovhaness) (Op. 173, Celestial Gate) by Alan Hovhaness, 1959; Symphony No. 6 (Mahler) in A minor ...
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At the end of the development, a solo horn states the opening flute theme in the tonic, reminding modern listeners of the premature entry of the horn at the end of the development of Ludwig van Beethoven's Eroica Symphony composed forty years later. [6] The slow movement is an Andante featuring passages for solo violin and solo cello bracketed ...
The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia.One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, the orchestra is based at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, where it performs its subscription concerts, numbering over 130 annually, at Marian Anderson Hall (formerly Verizon Hall).
It is probably no coincidence that the movement, with its stormy character through restless strings, wind-like whistling woodwinds and thundering brass instruments, is reminiscent of the finale from Joachim Raff's Symphony No. 3 "In the forest": [19] the symphony was one of the most played of its time, and Tchaikovsky had already been inspired ...
At one point in the movement Beethoven uses a melody that sounds vaguely like a quotation from the folk song "Zu Lauterbach". [1] This seems subjective/unencyclopedic to me and moreover has no cited reference source. If there is evidence that Beethoven knew the tune and was inspired by it in writing the Sixth Symphony, then it should go back in.