Thursday, December 15, 2011

Beethoven - Choral Fantasia #81

Beethoven - Choral Fantasia

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) has been identified as the first musical in the virtuoso pianist. An improvisor, his skills were well known. The art of improvisation was a rebirth of the jazz musicians have. Of course, it does sound recordings of Beethoven was, so I guess it is a matter of sound. His improvisations have a contemporary description, but we will never know how great he is.

That it may be, we improvised a music of Beethoven and the place that I have written down. Such as the Fantasia in choral piano solo. In this work, a benefit concert for his first hearing in December 1808. This is a concert that was a 5 and 6, 4 th piano concerto, an aria, and C major premieres in the entire half of the finale. At least 3 1 / 2 long hours in an unheated concert hall in Vienna, the thought of such a long concert, in December Austria mind boggles. Beethoven concert that is coordinated from a single piano, orchestra and voice is a bit extreme to be written.

Beethoven's first performance single. He is so rapid it (vocal part of the ink was still wet at the time of the concert), and is busy preparing for solo piano, write down any time he was at this concert, so he improvised. Virtuosic piano bar after a 26, a theme introduced by the deep lines on the piano for a few measures, then cut to the main theme by solo piano, a set of causes and variations on the theme of a symphonic orchestra with a dialog to enter. After the change, the primary theme is restated punctuated by a deep line that flourishes from the piano. After a chorus with piano accompaniment moved. The next verse continues with the piano accompanying chorus continues until the full orchestra and chorus together, add up to a full orchestra and piano pieces, all the phases together with the chords and flourishes.

Fantasia on a test that was the precursor of 9 choral symphony has been compared. The two are identical, with 9 as the major choral music and the poem of some similarity in the structure. Fantasia's own right, but the choral music that Beethoven wrote the piece that has its own truth, creativity and imagination should be over the age of a work of art.


Beethoven's Choral Fantasia and  English translation of the chorus:


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With grace, beauty and the sweet sounds
Our life, harmonies,
Engenders a sense of beauty
The flowers that bloom eternally.
Perfect peace and joy of the proceeding,
Like the waves of the game;
All the harsh and hostile elements
To render a stately feel.

When the Magic Kingdom sounds
And the sacred word is pronounced,
On behalf of the wonders that lie,
And in light of the Tempest set,
Without a deep and abiding pleasure in,,
Longing for a great hour.
Meanwhile, the spring sun, and Art
The light in the bath.

Heart of some great,
Blooms again when her beauty,
The spirit of flight,
And all the spirits of the north choir resounds.
Oh, I admit, you're good spirits
Joyously of the gifts industry.
When love and power in the United Kingdom,
Man of God's reward of friendship.