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Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony is in many ways his most startlingly original symphony. It has a programmatic content, it is in five movements rather than the normal four, and its mood is quite ...

This has been, to date, a most distinguished Beethoven ... of the Eighth Symphony didn’t entirely work; not because it was overdriven but because it was too sedate. Jordan’s view has clearly evolved, ...

The works discussed include Beethoven's Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies, Haydn's Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's symphonies on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and ...