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[Fifth Symphony] Cinquieme Sinfonie en ut mineur: C Moll... Oeuvre 67 "Beethoven struggled for over four years with The Fifth Symphony in C minor (op. 67), the most loved and widely performed symphony of all time. The work seems to exemplify the defiant spirit of the human race to continue to strive against adversity" (Duval, Essential Canon of Classical Music). FIRST EDITION OF THE FULL SCORE IN RARE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS of Beethoven's Fifth symphony. With lithographic title leaf and 182 fully engraved pages. "The C minor Symphony is not only the best known, and therefore the most generally enjoyed, of Beethoven's nine Symphonies, but it its a more universal favourite than any other work of the same class... And this is not only among amateurs who have some practical familiarity with music, but among the large mass of persons who go to hear music pour passer le temps... It is the work which would naturally occur to anyone who was asked to play or to name a characteristic specimen of Beethoven..." In terms of influence, "The modern Romantic movement, whether called so or not, seems to have taken place earlier in music than it did in literature; and, whoever else may aspire to the honour of leading it, Beethoven was really its prophet, and the C minor Symphony its first great and assured triumph" (George Grove, Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies). First performed in Vienna on December 22, 1808; the parts were published by Breitkopf & Hartel in 1809. Kinsky-Halm, 160.
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