Symphony No. 5 in C minor Op. 67
Urtext from the new Beethoven Complete Edition
[orch] duration: 36' picc.2.2.2.2.dbl bsn – 2.2.3.0 – timp – str
Description
The Famous One in the Leading Edition
Beethoven spent a relatively long time on his 5th Symphony. Thus, first sketches can already be found from as early as 1804, four years before the work was premiered in Vienna in December 1808. Not only impressive is its striking opening theme, letting everyone know immediately that this is Beethoven being played, but also its nickname “symphony of fate.” Nothing in the sources prefigures the much-cited “fate,” musically knocking here “at the door.” The autograph of the score and the set of parts prepared from it, including Beethoven’s revisions, serve as the main sources of this Urtext edition, together with the missing copy of the score, now extant only incomplete in photographs, and the original edition of the parts authorized by Beethoven. The new performance material is based on the recently published volume of the New Beethoven Complete Edition.
PB 14615
score
EAN: 9790004214909
120 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 521 g / softbound
OB 14615-15
violin 1
EAN: 9790004343265
18 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 91 g / stapled
OB 14615-16
violin 2
EAN: 9790004343272
16 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 83 g / stapled
OB 14615-19
viola
EAN: 9790004343289
16 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 83 g / stapled
OB 14615-23
violoncello
EAN: 9790004343296
18 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 88 g / stapled
OB 14615-27
double bass
EAN: 9790004343302
12 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 64 g / stapled
OB 14615-30
wind parts
EAN: 9790004343319
164 pages / 25 x 32 cm / 684 g / folder
Description
Description
The Famous One in the Leading Edition
Beethoven spent a relatively long time on his 5th Symphony. Thus, first sketches can already be found from as early as 1804, four years before the work was premiered in Vienna in December 1808. Not only impressive is its striking opening theme, letting everyone know immediately that this is Beethoven being played, but also its nickname “symphony of fate.” Nothing in the sources prefigures the much-cited “fate,” musically knocking here “at the door.” The autograph of the score and the set of parts prepared from it, including Beethoven’s revisions, serve as the main sources of this Urtext edition, together with the missing copy of the score, now extant only incomplete in photographs, and the original edition of the parts authorized by Beethoven. The new performance material is based on the recently published volume of the New Beethoven Complete Edition.
Table of contents
| 1. | Allegro con brio |
| 2. | Andante con moto |
| 3. | Allegro |
| 4. | Allegro |