Beethoven component La Pastoral Water-ink from a gravat by Franz Hegi (1774-1850)
The famous concert, lasting more than 4 hours, which Beethoven will conduct on December 22, 1808 in Vienna, will take place with the premiere of the seva Sisena Simfonia 'Pastoral'. Month after month, the concert will include the premiere of the Symphony no. 5, the Quart Concert for piano and the Choral Fantasia.
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The style of the symphony connects with the pastoral tradition, characterized by the imitation of the sons of nature and the evocation and cry of the spirit and the happiness of life in the countryside. An artistic motif that Horaci will fix for posterity in the famous poem that begins with 'Beatus Ille...' -feliços esels...-.