Trivium - A View Of Burning Empires

The Archduke was also devoted to the largest work created by Beethoven in the pre-war spring of 1809 - the Fifth Piano Concerto, in which you can hear fanfares, and the thundering tread of regiments leaving the parade directly for battle, and the fury of battle, and a prayer to heaven, and universal dance in honor of the victory. This concert, the most grandiose, complex and masterly of all the concerts of the classical era, Beethoven himself did not play. Perhaps creating it, he hoped that at the end of the year he would receive the An der Vin hall for the next academy and there he would triumphantly perform this inhumanly difficult masterpiece. But due to military events, Beethoven was unable to arrange a benefit academy either in 1809 or in the next three years. The Archduke also could not afford to perform the Fifth concert in public.The solitary attempts of other pianists to present this concert during Beethoven’s life did not have much success. So the great work, which embodied the heroic and warlike spirit of its time, remained virtually unknown to the very crowns who, in 1809, were inscribed in the militia, defended their city, died in battle, suffered - like Beethoven himself - all the misfortunes that fell on share of the defeated ...