Las nueve sinfonías de Beethoven

A scholarly and documented essay, didactic and entertaining, masterful and original in its approach, which reads naturally, which will be enjoyed not only by musicologists and music lovers, but also by any fan of classical music. With Beethoven, the music leaves the halls and becomes something decidedly public, demanding large spaces and larger orchestral formats. Surpassing the classical formation inherited from the 18th century, its Symphonies, each with its own personality, represent the birth of the modern orchestral formation -which continues to this day-, and the consecration of protagonism, leadership and -for some- the tyranny of the conductor, as Richard Wagner already pointed out. Despite his enormous creation in all genres -solo piano, chamber music, symphonic and choral work, opera, incidental music, lieder, concerts for soloist and orchestra- Beethoven's favorite format has always been the orchestral, whose enormous sound structures they boiled in his powerful imagination. He embodied in his nine symphonies the republican values of freedom, equality and fraternity that he displayed, bringing the long-awaited democracy to the orchestral sphere, with a successful balance of the string and wind families, together with a meticulous process of timbral autonomy for each one. of the instruments, which required greater tuning capabilities, emission, power and agility in interpretation. Beyond his classical masters, he created an enormous orchestral sound, which nonetheless grew out of the same technical resources that his illustrious predecessors Haydn and Mozart had enjoyed, just a few years earlier.