Extol - Inferno

These notes make it possible to understand what exactly the composer put into his understanding of the so-called “program” music, which was considered in the classical era not to be a very serious genre, unworthy of the attention of major masters. In treatises of the late XVIII - early XIX centuries, composers were constantly warned against such "childishness", making no exception even for Handel and Haydn. Beethoven again went against public opinion, declaratively providing the name with not only the entire symphony (which he had already done in Heroic), but also each of its five parts.