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Ludwig van Beethoven is a well-known composer who lived during the transition from Classicism to Romanticism. ... His First is in the key of C, but Beethoven begins the piece on the dominant seventh of F major rather than the tonic, which was unacceptable to critics expecting the standard symphony to start on the tonic (Arnold & Fortune, 1971, p. ...
By 1802, Beethoven was acknowledged throughout Europe as the foremost pianist of his time, the foremost composer for the piano of his time, and a symphonist who ranked with Haydn and Mozart. ... According to Carl Czerny, Beethoven declared, "I am not satisfied with my previous works; from here on I shall follow a new path" (cited in Wallace, 1986, p. ... This extensive development of a small, repeated musical subject was then called motivic development, which Beethoven was the first to use extensively and to master. ... For example, in his Eroica Symphony, Beethoven enlarges the first section of the first movement to outrageous and lengthy (at least for his time) proportions through long, sophisticated motivic development of many musical themes (Grout & Palisca, 1988, p. ... By drawing on resources such as motivic development, Beethoven could spare audience boredom from an unusually long symphony (Arnold & Fortune, 1971, p. ...
Although Beethoven was recognized across Europe as a pianist and composer, many musicians did not understand the nature of such bold treatment of musical ideas and therefore did not eagerly accept them (Grout & Palisca, 1988, p. ... For example, when the musicians of Count von Andreas Cyrillovich Razumovsky, the Russian ambassador to Vienna, to whom Beethoven dedicated three Op. ... 1 of the set), they thought Beethoven was playing a joke on them. ... " to which Beethoven responded, "Oh, they are not for you, but for a later age" (Grout & Palisca, p. ... Because Beethoven yearned to succeed beyond the limitations of his handicap, his music was a manifestation of this personal "progress of struggle to victory.
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