DAILY DOSE of BEETHOVEN (May 12, 2020)
We thank you all for staying with us through the 12-part discussion of the Ninth Symphony. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony inspired many great composers after him, but they were also awed by it. Our audio today, compares the sections of the Ninth that were quoted as tributes by others.
1. The opening of the Scherzo movement, and the opening of the Scherzo from Antonin Dvorak's own Ninth, the New World Symphony.
2. The opening of the first movement, with the opening of Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony, in also in D minor.
3. The Ode to Joy with a surprise passage from the 4th movement of the of Franz Schubert's Ninth Symphony.
4. The opening of the 4th movement of Johannes Brahms' Symphony # 1, which seems improvisational and searching for the idea, as is the introduction to the 4th movement of the Beethoven.