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Composer of the Week: Beethoven

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With Donald Macleod. 3: The Congress of Vienna. In 1814 Beethoven did well from the steady flow of concerts organised by the recently founded
Gesellschaftder Musikfreunde. But the war against Napoleon had crippled the Austrian economy and Beethoven's fortune. Thanks to a benefit concert on Christmas Day he managed to boost both his finances and his popularity. Europe Stands! (The Glorious Moment,
Op 136)Arcum Choro di Voci Bianche, Santa Cecilia Academy Chorus and Orchestra, Rome, conductor Myung-Whun Chung
Symphony No 7 in A Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Carlos Kleiber
Meeresstille und Gliickliche Fahrt , Op 112 Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre
Révolutionnaire et Romantique, conductor John Eliot Gardiner

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald MacLeod.
Unknown:
Gesellschaftder Musikfreunde.
Conductor:
Myung-Whun Chung
Conductor:
Carlos Kleiber
Unknown:
Gliickliche Fahrt
Conductor:
John Eliot Gardiner
Source: Radio Times

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