Symphony no 5 1st movement beethoven biography summary

What is unusual about beethoven’s symphony no. 5?

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He wrote nine symphonies. A symphony is a long piece for orchestra usually split into four sections known as movements. His Symphony No. Some people think that the opening motif represents fate knocking on the door, Beethoven's fate sadly being deafness. Listen out for: The opening motif, it is repeated many times throughout the movement.

Can you hear there are three notes on the same pitch and then one the last one at a lower pitch? Barney Harwood introduces Beethoven's Symphony No. Beethoven was in appearance and manner a very unlikely genius. He was often dirty, dishevelled, rude, aggressive, unpredictable and eccentric - but his music told another story.

He radically transformed every type of music he wrote, changing the 'rules' of symphonies, operas, concertos and solo pieces. Tragedy struck at age 28 when he began to go deaf and soon he could only hear his works by imagining the sounds in his head, this made him even more angry and difficult to know.