Category: Beethoven Glosses
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Beethoven’s Conceptual Motive or: Why Does the Fifth Symphony Need Trombones?
George Papajohn | Beethoven Glosses 1 It is more or less the general opinion that the opening motto of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony serves not just as a germ motive for the first movement, but occurs in some guise in the three subsequent movements as a unifying idea of sorts. This notion dates back at least…
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Beethoven Glosses: 0
A Brief Foreword Since moving to California in 2021, I have developed a few brief and casual analyses of moments in Beethoven’s music. Many of these have been shared with colleagues and students over the years, though I rarely formalized them in writing. For some, I have not yet come across any published work that…
George Papajohn: Composer 