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What are your three favorite Beethoven Symphonies

Sym. 1
4 (2.4%)
Sym. 2
3 (1.8%)
Sym. 3
26 (15.8%)
Sym. 4
18 (10.9%)
Sym. 5
23 (13.9%)
Sym. 6
20 (12.1%)
Sym. 7
30 (18.2%)
Sym. 8
9 (5.5%)
Sym. 9
32 (19.4%)

Total Members Voted: 39

Voting closed: May 18, 2007, 06:17:13 AM

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Offline Bogey

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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #40 on: May 15, 2007, 01:58:23 PM »
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 15, 2007, 08:03:59 AM
Both the Fourth and the Eighth have been unfairly relegated to the second tier. They deserve better.

Sarge

Yes, but remember Sarge, Beethoven's second tier is most composers' box seats.

As of today....3,5, and 1.
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #41 on: May 15, 2007, 02:10:19 PM »
Quote from: Bogey on May 15, 2007, 01:58:23 PM
Yes, but remember Sarge, Beethoven's second tier is most composers' box seats.

All Dittersdorf needs is a dollar and a dream . . . .

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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #42 on: May 15, 2007, 03:09:10 PM »
My favorite Beethoven symphony?

Whichever one I heard last.
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #43 on: May 15, 2007, 04:01:51 PM »
Quote from: Joe Barron on May 15, 2007, 03:09:10 PM
My favorite Beethoven symphony?

Whichever one I heard last.

Best answer yet.  :)
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #44 on: May 15, 2007, 10:00:52 PM »
Quote from: Joe Barron on May 15, 2007, 03:09:10 PM
My favorite Beethoven symphony?

Whichever one I heard last.

Mine is the one I'm putting on next. ;D
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #45 on: May 15, 2007, 11:00:06 PM »
The 7th above all.

Then perhaps the 4th.

And the 9th, because of its first 3 movements.

What a pity to leave outside the 3rd with the March.
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #46 on: May 16, 2007, 02:11:08 AM »
Quote from: val on May 15, 2007, 11:00:06 PM
The 7th above all.

Anybody know a version of the 7th in which the finale goes REALLY fast and the horns just rip through the orchestra (but the performance is still clean)?
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #47 on: May 16, 2007, 02:20:03 AM »
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Anybody know a version of the 7th in which the finale goes REALLY fast and the horns just rip through the orchestra (but the performance is still clean)?

Pierre Monteux with the LSO.
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #48 on: May 16, 2007, 02:51:45 AM »
Quote from: val on May 15, 2007, 11:00:06 PM
The 7th above all.

Then perhaps the 4th.

And the 9th, because of its first 3 movements.

What a pity to leave outside the 3rd with the March.

We all had to make sacrifices, Val. Me, I wept as I discarded the Ninth...and the Seventh....and the Sixth....and the Fifth...and the Second...

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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #49 on: May 16, 2007, 03:06:06 AM »
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 16, 2007, 02:51:45 AM
We all had to make sacrifices, Val. Me, I wept as I discarded the Ninth...and the Seventh....and the Sixth....and the Fifth...and the Second...

Sarge

You discarded all three of my picks.  :-[
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #50 on: May 16, 2007, 03:48:03 AM »
Sarge and Karl have mentioned #4 as being unfairly neglected.

It is interesting that Stravinsky is on record (in a book) that his favorite was #4.
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #51 on: May 16, 2007, 03:51:42 AM »
Quote from: Cato on May 16, 2007, 03:48:03 AM
Sarge and Karl have mentioned #4 as being unfairly neglected.

It is interesting that Stravinsky is on record (in a book) that his favorite was #4.

And wasn't Beethoven himself especially fond of the Eighth?

Sarge
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #52 on: May 16, 2007, 03:52:28 AM »
Quote from: George on May 16, 2007, 03:06:06 AM
You discarded all three of my picks.  :-[

It wasn't done lightly, I assure you, George.

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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #53 on: May 16, 2007, 03:55:22 AM »
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 16, 2007, 03:51:42 AM
And wasn't Beethoven himself especially fond of the Eighth?

With that delicious cello-&-horn opening to the trio of the Scherzo, who could blame him, Sarge?
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #54 on: May 16, 2007, 05:18:13 AM »
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 16, 2007, 03:51:42 AM
And wasn't Beethoven himself especially fond of the Eighth?

Sarge

He didn't attend the premiere concert of the 2 (in 1814, I believe). He asked one of the people who DID attend how they were received, and when told that the 7th received great applause while the 8th failed to please, he flew into a rage and ranted about how stupid the average listener was. So, I would suppose you are right. :)

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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #55 on: May 16, 2007, 05:20:14 AM »
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on May 16, 2007, 03:52:28 AM
It wasn't done lightly, I assure you, George.

Sarge



Its OK, I discarded all of your picks.  ;D


...also not lightly.  :)
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #56 on: May 16, 2007, 05:27:54 AM »
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on May 16, 2007, 05:18:13 AM
He didn't attend the premiere concert of the 2 (in 1814, I believe). He asked one of the people who DID attend how they were received, and when told that the 7th received great applause while the 8th failed to please, he flew into a rage and ranted about how stupid the average listener was. So, I would suppose you are right. :)

If Beethoven saw the results of this poll, he might conclude we are just average listeners.
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #57 on: May 16, 2007, 05:52:42 AM »
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on May 16, 2007, 05:18:13 AM
He asked one of the people who DID attend how they were received, and when told that the 7th received great applause while the 8th failed to please, he flew into a rage and ranted about how stupid the average listener was.

Gee, and they say atonal composers are contemptuous of listeners ...

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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #58 on: May 16, 2007, 06:09:56 AM »
10 is my favorite . . . . .
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Re: Your Favorite Beethoven Symphonies
« Reply #59 on: May 16, 2007, 07:12:01 AM »
7, 6 and 4 in that order.
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