50 (Manrico Padovani, violin Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Boris Perrenoud, cond. Maybe, it all had to do with yet another ill-advised love infatuation? It’s some of the most emotional and sweet music that Beethoven ever composed. We still don’t know why he composed two Romances for solo violin and small orchestra, but they are surely staples of classical violin music. Supposedly, his father once scolded him by saying, “what silly trash are you scratching together now? You know I can’t bear that – scratch by note, otherwise your scratching won’t amount to much.” And while he played viola in the opera and chapel orchestras of Bonn, he met some of the finest string players of his time after moving to Vienna. As a young boy, Beethoven did take violin lessons but apparently preferred to improvise. He is especially known, at a popular level, for being the author of the Four Seasons series of concerts for violin and orchestra. 50Ĭontrary to Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a substantial amount of music for the violin. Antonio Vivaldi composed about 770 pieces, including more than 400 concertos and about 46 operas.
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