It says he had just gotten it it had just been published. He had the score in front of him, so essentially it's a review of the score. And Hoffmann had not heard Beethoven's Fifth. SIEGEL: One of the most striking things about this review is it's, of course, by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. MATTHEW GUERRIERI: It was really both the first extended review of the fifth symphony that we have, and it was also really this one particular review that is the bridge between Beethoven as a composer of the classical era and Beethoven as this sort of almost musical mascot of the German Romantic movement, which became really one of the most long-lasting and persistent images of Beethoven that we have. Hoffmann in 1810, not long after the symphony was first performed. And as Guerrieri writes, one of the most influential reviews of that work was written by E.T.A. SIEGEL: The book is about how Beethoven's 5th symphony. I came across his name last Christmas season in Matthew Guerrieri's book "The First Four Notes." Hoffmann, born 1776, died 1822 in the Kingdom of Prussia. His name used to be hugely famous, but nowadays it draws blank stares, even from people who know his work.
I'm Robert Siegel.Īnd in this part of the program, a repeat airing of a story about a man responsible for a work that is a staple of the holiday season. This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
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