ExclusiveComplete Performance: Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F Major Pastoral

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major 'Pastoral', Op. 68 - I. Allegro non troppo. This beautiful piece was preserved by European Archive. It has Creative Commons license (PDM 1.0 DEED, Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Beethoven was a lover of nature who spent a great deal of his time on walks in the country. He frequently left Vienna to work in rural locations. The composer said that the Sixth Symphony is "more the expression of feeling than painting", a point underlined by the title of the first movement.

The first sketches of the Pastoral Symphony appeared in 1802. It was composed simultaneously with Beethoven's more famous Fifth Symphony. Both symphonies were premiered in a long and under-rehearsed concert in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 22 December 1808.

In his journals and letters Beethoven more than once referred to his pantheistic veneration for “the shrine of nature”, where he felt calm, blessed and devoted to God, happy in the middle of the woods in which „the trees speak through you”. It was during his long solitary walks in the vicinity of Heiligenstadt (at a time when he was experiencing a great inner breakdown following the loss of his hearing and wrote the famous Heiligenstadt Testament) that he conceived the idea of the Pastoral Symphony, as a reflection of his experiences with nature.

The places Christian and Simone Schlegel filmed are: Kiental Nature Reserve, Unterbach near Meiringen, Griesalp, Schreckhorn (Frighthorn), and Oltschibach Fall, all in Switzerland. The film was edited by Wenjing Ma.

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