Beethoven's 9th - What's that all about?! (Part 1)

0:00 Introduction with Loki
0:35 200th anniversary of Beethoven 9
0:53 The Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna
1:14 Proposal of a soap opera format. What do you think?
1:50 The 9th century in Beethoven’s career
2:47 The evolution of Beethoven’s style
3:17 The middle period
3:41 The Theatre an Der Wien concert in 1808
4:00 The premiere of the 5th and 6th symphonies
4:48 The Choral Fantasia and the Ode to Joy
6:36 Years of struggle
7:28 The Phoenix-like emergence of the late period
8:58 Schiller’s Ode to Joy and Beethoven’s universal hymn
9:20 There’s more to the 9th than the finale!
9:37 Beethoven never repeats himself
10:21 The open ‘primal’ 5th
12:10 Dotted rhythms
12:46 Momentum
12:58 The emergence of D
13:15 The main theme
13:54 Beethoven: Romanticism and looking back
14:37 Almost like a French Overture
15:12 Harmony comes in
15:37 The Neapolitan (E flat)
16:04 answering phrase on the dominant
16:18 Beethoven disrupts rhythm at the cadence
17:38 The 2nd sentence on tonic
18:32 The emergence of B flat
19:00 Transition (Liszt’s transcription)
19:25 We’re on the move! The Toccata
20:08 A comparison with Beethoven’s 5th symphony (Learned Style)
21:02 The canon and the wonderful modulation
22:32 The new serene Pastoral character
22:55 It’s like a play
23:10 Do you want a 2nd episode on the 2nd subject…?
23:40 Liszt’s arrangement of the 1st Subject of Beethoven 9 with analytical commentary

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the premiere of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in May 1824, this video attempts to explain a work which has attained monumental status within Western culture. Matthew King discusses Beethoven’s final symphony in the context of his entire career and the evolution of his style. There is a comparison between Beethoven’s triumphant Viennese symphonic concert in 1808 and his ‘return’ concert in 1824. Matthew King then explains the extraordinary opening of the symphony, emerging as if out of primal mystery, and he considers how Beethoven’s material manages both to look forward to Romanticism, and also back to the past with elements of Baroque style.

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Beethoven Symphony no. 9 in D Minor Op. 125 (transcription by Franz Liszt)

Pianist: Matthew King.

Liszt’s complete transcription of the first movement of Beethoven 9 can be heard here in a recording by Cyprien Katsaris:    • Beethoven-Liszt - Symphony 9 (Allegro...  

A fine (historically informed) performance of the original music can be heard here, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner:    • Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 (2020) | Jo...  

A wonderful performance of Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia of 1808 can be heard here, with Martha Argerich at the piano, conducted by the late Seji Ozawa:    • Martha Argerich-Beethoven,Choral Fantasy  

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