Beethoven250 Festival

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Photo courtesy of L'Auditori.

The OBC joins the events commemorating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, ‎offering five programs with fifteen works by the composer.‎

The first program, under the baton of the great expert in music from the Classical period ‎and principal guest conductor of the OBC, Jan Willem de Vriend, is a recreation of the concert ‎performed by Beethoven himself at the Imperial Palace of Vienna on February 27, 1814: the ‎premiere of the fresh and light-hearted 8th Symphony and the performance of three ‎portfolio works. Firstly, the 7th Symphony (which premiered with great success two ‎months earlier), followed by a vocal trio composed at the time he was receiving classes from ‎the legendary Antonio Salieri and, finally, the spectacular Victory Symphony-including ‎cannon shots and bell peals - which overshadowed the performance of the rest of the ‎program.‎

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