{"id":2091,"date":"2023-01-28T13:07:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T12:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.popularbeethoven.com\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2023-01-28T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T18:53:41","slug":"what-is-special-about-beethovens-fifth-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.popularbeethoven.com\/what-is-special-about-beethovens-fifth-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"What is special about Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is unique and remarkable. Ever since its birth audiences are keen to solve the mystery, find the answer, point a finger to a meaning. Not possible! What is special about it? Everything! Let us look at some of the most important aspects that make this work so outstanding!<\/p>\n
1. Drama<\/strong> 2. Cathedral from a small rock<\/strong>
\nBeethoven put to paper his first ideas about a new symphony in 1803-1804, right after the Eroica Symphony<\/a>. The Fifth is a different composition, but both share the same energy and something important: drama! This drama starts in the first movement (in fact right at the first notes!), dark and tense in C minor, ends in joyous triumph, in C major. This transition from dark to light knits the symphony together as the main concept.<\/p>\n
\nBeethoven uses the most simple thing possible, that is still comprehensible for the human ears, a four-note primal rhythm and builds a complete symphony out of it. This is not a theme, but a motif. Moreover, this little four-note rhythmic motif, instead of hiding and working in the background, now becomes the foreground and the essence of the music. The first three notes mimics forward movement, the fourth prolonged note stops this and brings in the feeling of doom.<\/p>\n\n