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#TheCompleteBeethoven #290

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36 (1800-02)

1/ Beethoven's response to the despair caused by his incurable deafness? The longest, most audicious, most joyful (*) symphony the world had ever heard.

Not all heroes wear capes.
2/ "You shall receive Mozart's spirit from Haydn's hands." - Count Waldstein

Mozart, Beethoven's musical hero since childhood, is at the heart of his second symphony just as surely as Haydn, his teacher, was the wellspring for Symphony No. 1.
3/ Beethoven began Symphony No. 2 in late 1800, eager to repeat the critical and commercial success of No. 1's premiere at his first benefit concert in April that year. However, any plans he had to finish No. 2 in time for a similar concert in 1801 were to be thwarted.
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