The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 170, Ed. 2 Friday, November 17, 1939 Page: 5 of 14
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ember 17, 1939 •
olriday Evening, November 17, 1939
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN — of whom the
great Wagner spoke these words—is regarded by
musicians and music-lovers everywhere with an ad-
, oration and a reverence amounting almost to awe.
Hardly any musical genius who ever lived can be
ranked as high in the history of musical composition.
Born of an easy-going mother who was a
domestic servant and of a besotted, brutal father.
Beethoven never played the games of other boys.
All his childhood was dogged by wretchedness, even
slow starvation. Dragged from bed in the middle of
the night by a drunkenly raging father, he would
be forced to practice his music for hours.
, Grown, he was ugly of face and figure, short,
squat, lumpish and thick-fingered. Possessed of vio-
lent temper, a harsh tongue and careless, untidy
habits, poverty-stricken always, Beethoven was any-
thing but prepossessing.
Stories of his rudeness, his bitter humor, his
uncouth manners have become legend. How he
poured a dish of stew over the head of a waiter who
displeased him. How he punished a cook for the
staleness of eggs by throwing the whole lot at her
one by one. How he sent a wisp of goat's beard to
a lady who asked for a lock of his hair.
Yet for all his forbidding habits, his coarse
speech and humor, the reigning beauties of the
Vienna aristocracy adored him and would stand any
rudeness from him. And for all his boorish ex-
terior he was, in his inmost thoughts, all that was
fine and noble. His music, daringly original for his
day. shocked his contemporaries—but even them he
enchanted with his playing and his improvisations.
Illness followed him all his years, turned his
best days into aching misery. Finally, in the midst
of his greatest work, fate dealt him a blow that would
have crushed any ordinary man ... He became deaf!
Imagine the black depths of grief that now tor-
tured him. Never to hear a note that he played at
his beloved piano. Never to hear an instrument in
the orchestra performing his tremendous works.
Imagine the proud, untamable Beethoven con-
ducting an orchestra at a premiere of his own works
—losing his place in the music—and then, because
he could not know it in his world of dead silence,
ending the performance in humiliation and con-
fusion. Imagine him seated in the audience at the
first public playing of his Ninth Symphony, beating
time with the score in front of him—and still beat-
ing until a sympathetic onlooker turned him around
to SEE the applause he could not hear.
The Symphony
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony was first played on De-
cember 22, 1808. The day was icy cold Beethoven con-
ducted en uncelebrated orchestra in an unheated hall, be-
fore a sparse audience that shivered and left one by one
before the program was half over. Picture Beethoven,
bitterly cast down at the conclusion of the performance,
at the hour that should have seen his greatest triumph.
Consider, too. the humility of one who could write so
magnificently and yet could say st the end of a grief-
ridden life "I feel as if I had written scarcely more than
a few notes!
The celebrated Fifth Symphony stands at the peak of
man’s attainment—no greater music has ever been written!
You will never tire of its perfection—you will find new
rapture in its glorious harmonies each time you hear it.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN'S
Symphony No 5in C Minor
MOZART'S
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor
RICHARD WAGNER'S
Prelude to “Die Meistersinger"
Prelude to "Parsifal"
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH'S
Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2 and 3
CLAUDE DEBUSSY'S
“Afternoon of a Faun,” “Clouds” and
“Festivals”
FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN'S
Symphony No. 99 in E Flat Major
TSCHAIKOWSKY’S
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor
JOHANNES BRAHMS'
Symphony No. 2 in D Major
CESAR FRANCK’S
Symphony in D Minor
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