In the next month or so DvoЕ™ГЎk completed the sketches of the third and fourth movements. 6, shows contact with Czech sources, although Michael Beckerman suggests that the relationship 'seems overpowered by the formal mastery of DvoЕ™ГЎk's development of the ideas.' Donald Tovey and Robert Layton have both observed that the second movement, like the furiant of Symphony No. He told his publisher that 'there is not one superfluous note'. However, there is also a broader horizon-he wrote to a friend 'What is in my mind is Love, God, and my Fatherland.' The movement starts with intense calm and peace, but also includes turmoil and unsettled weather. This refers to the recent death of his mother, and probably also to the previous death of his eldest child, and these events were in his mind especially in this movement. He added a footnote 'From the sad years'. He finished his sketch of the slow movement ten days later. God grant that this Czech music will move the world!!' He completed a sketch of the first movement in five days, and he wrote to one of his friends: 'I am now busy with this symphony for London, and wherever I go I can think of nothing else. In doing so the symphony would also reveal something of his personal struggle in reconciling his simple and peaceful countryman's feelings with his intense patriotism and his wish to see the Czech nation flourish. He resolved that his new symphony would reflect this struggle. The Czechs were in fact coming to the National Theatre in Prague, where there was to be a musical evening to support the political struggles of the Czech nation. A month later, after his daily walk to Prague railway station, he said 'the first subject of my new symphony flashed in to my mind on the arrival of the festive train bringing our countrymen from Pest'. So it was fortuitous that in that same year the London Philharmonic Society invited him to write a new symphony and elected him as an honorary member. 3, and this prompted him to think of writing of a new symphony himself. DvoЕ™ГЎk had heard and admired Johannes Brahms' new Symphony No. History ДvoЕ™ГЎk's work on the symphony began on 13 December 1884. The work, approximately 40 minutes in length, is scored for an orchestra of 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo in the 3rd movement), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (in A and B в™), 2 bassoons, 4 horns (in D and F), 2 trumpets (in C, D, and F), 3 trombones, timpani and strings.ДЄs with other works of this period, including the Scherzo capriccioso, the third piano trio, the Hussite Overture, and the Ballade in D minor, the symphony is written in a more dramatic, dark and aggressive style that supersedes the carefree folk style of DvoЕ™ГЎk's 'Slavonic period'. Finale: Allegro in D minor, ending on a Picardy third in D major.Scherzo: Vivace - Poco meno mosso in D minor with Trio in G major.SL: What is it about the Allegretto? Melody, motion, and maybe a little mystery-all part of the genius of Beethoven. SD: There is something subliminal that makes this rhythm we hear all the time. SD: Then, finally, when the theme arrives, itвЂ™s fabulous because it has this element of nostalgia.В You have the feeling you have direct access to the heart of Beethoven. StГ©phane DenГЁve: It starts by the way within a minor chord, and then suddenly what you hear is not the theme, but the counter theme. SL: What is it about the second movement of BeethovenвЂ™s 7th symphony that draws us in? MUSIC: Jazz pianist Jacques Loussier, Variation 1 on Beethoven's Allegretto. Susan Lewis: The Allegretto has been performed on its own, used in The KingвЂ™s Speech and other films, and inspired composers from Schubert to jazz pianist Jacques Loussier.

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