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SYMPHONY MASTERWORKS AT THE MACC
Beethoven
A celebration of beloved composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) featuring a special guest pianist.
Journey from Beethoven’s powerful and triumphant Symphony No. 7 to his majestic “Emperor” Piano Concerto, alongside Gulf Coast Symphony Composer in Residence Farhad Poupel’s Orpheus: Symphonic Variations on Themes by Beethoven.
A program celebrating Beethoven’s enduring influence and the creative dialogue between past and present.
Photos by Bruce Jaeger
About the Composer
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most widely recognized and admired composers in the history of Western music, and served as an important bridge between the Classical and Baroque era styles he admired and the Romantic style his music would come to personify. Beethoven was born in 1770 into a modest family in the small German provincial town of Bonn, where he would study composition and play the piano and viola until moving to Vienna in his early 20’s where he would live the rest of his life.
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