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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…
George Papajohn: Composer 