translated from Spanish: Do you have to do the “fifth” of Beethoven with the destination?

Ta-ta-ta-taaaa (Sun Sun Sun mi…) There are no symphonic fragment more known in the world than the beginning of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Bonn composer had lived in our times, had become rich only by the number of times that these four notes are used, from melodies for mobile to an infinite number of arrangements. The start of the fifth is also printed on mugs, bags and umbrellas. Not to mention the copyright that would generate their music whenever one of his works is performed. In the Edition 2018 of the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, which has the “fate” motto, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, you can listen to up to four times one in its original version and four in modern arrangements.
For which Symphony of fate?
Symphony No. 5 in c minor, written in 1808, has gone down in history as a Symphony of fate. The nickname comes from the Secretary and biographer of Beethoven, Anton Schindler. According to Schindler, when he asked the composer by four strong notes of home of the Fifth Symphony, Beethoven replied: “Thus fate knocks at the door”.
Jens Dufner, employed in the Beethoven archive in Bonn musicologist, does not give too much credibility to the words of Schindler. “Anton Schindler is a dubious figure,” he says. “It is true that it was a direct witness to that you can basically take seriously, but presented his relationship with Beethoven in a way different from what it really was. With the passage of time it was working hard to make it seem that he had a very close relationship with the composer and he was decorating his story with non-existent facts,”said Dufner.
Nine years before mentioning the famous phrase of “fate knocks at the door” in an article about the fifth of Beethoven, Schindler wrote that he sensed that music as a hero struggle against fate. “Much later, came the phrase of fate supposedly said by Beethoven. That makes distrust,”said Dufner. Moreover, the musicologist Michael Stuck-Scholen implies that, even if the phrase came from the own Beethoven, this would have given that brief explanation just to get rid of to Schindler.
In contrast to the fifth, the Sixth Symphony Yes carries a nickname given by the composer himself. “In 1809, Beethoven informs your editor is the title of the Symphony in f major ‘Pastoral Symphony or memory of life in the field, expression of feelings more what picture painting’. That is something that is well documented”said Dufner,”thing that doesn’t happen with the fifth and the so-called nickname of destiny”.
The true fate of Beethoven: deafness that is certain is that the Fifth Symphony was born in a time in which Beethoven was already a severe hearing loss aggravated by tinnitus. His illness began in 1798, but it was not until over one decade later when stayed completely deaf. During a stay in the city of Heiligenstadt in 1802, the composer came to write his will. “Missed some so it put me to death”, Beethoven wrote. “Only by art I continue in this world.” Although at this time it has already outlined fragments that are then used in the Fifth Symphony, Beethoven started this work much later. “There is no evidence that the crisis of Heiligenstadt has had no influence in the Fifth Symphony,” says Jens Dufner.
Director, musicologist and biographer of Beethoven Jan Caeyers describes how Beethoven had to change his life because of deafness. For starters, his career as a pianist was finished, so they arreciaron their aspirations to go into history as a great composer and leave music for eternity. “A phase of his life concludes and a larger Beethoven begins”, it tells DW Caeyers. “Thus, Beethoven develops a new orchestral language, dynamite Symphony limits, expands the dimensions of his works and his orchestral sound acquires greater intensity and depth”. The composer wrote to a friend: “I want to face to face destiny, not going to bow down”.
The influence of the French Revolution of solitary man, which is dedicated to music, image does not match the reality of Beethoven, at least in their young years. The composer was interested in literature and philosophy and, above all, by the policy. The French Revolution thrilled him and shared his ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. It was included in his work rhythms and melodic motifs of the French revolutionary music.
The French Orchestra conductor Francois-Xavier Roth plays the Fifth Symphony in revolutionary terms: “the storm, the wind that blows along this work, actually comes from the new philosophical aspects of the revolution and explodes in the Finale,” says Roth. Indeed, in France, Quinta, with its explosive finish, is better known as “song of victory” than as “Symphony of destiny”.
A persistent nickname the nickname of Symphony of fate remains stubbornly, despite the uncertainty surrounding its origin. Romantic artists believed in the force of destiny. Johannes Brahms quoted the initial reason for the fifth in his Quartet with piano in c minor in an era in which suffered badly from love.
“It is legitimate that people feel that this work is the ‘ Symphony of fate”, says Jan Dufner. “Only thing is you have to know is where that nickname comes from and it is doubtful that either own Beethoven”, concludes.

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