Beethoven Symphony No. 2

Beethoven Symphony No. 2

We continue the Beethoven cycle this week with his underrated 2nd symphony. Written at the height of Beethoven's despair over his increasing deafness, you might think that the symphony would be a dark and stormy one, but instead Beethoven writes one...
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We continue the Beethoven cycle this week with his underrated 2nd
symphony. Written at the height of Beethoven's despair over his
increasing deafness, you might think that the symphony would be a
dark and stormy one, but instead Beethoven writes one of his most
relentlessly cheerful pieces. He even invented a whole new type
of movement called a scherzo (joke) to heighten the mood. How do
we account for this incongruity between life and art? We'll talk
about all this and more as the journey continues..

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