![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of many generous donors, the Center raised the funds needed, successfully making sure the score remains available to the public.īut apart from adding an impressive artifact to the collection, what is the significance of the score? Doctor Fred Cohen, Director of the School of Music and Dance, has some thoughts. The center, with the largest collection of Beethoven-related manuscripts and artifacts outside of Europe (over 31,000 items!), was eager to acquire the score, as it directly related to an original manuscript the Center already maintains. Library purchased a signed, first-edition score of Beethoven’s 7 th, addressed to a woman named Antonie Brentano, who many believe to be Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved”. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at the Martin Luther King Jr. Allegretto has a seemingly endless ability to captivate and there are a million different theories as to why.Īnd now it has come to SJSU. Citizens of East Berlin moved with it as they walked over the remains of the Berlin Wall. Filmmakers have used it to amplify emotions on screen. The music shifts before falling back into quiet mystery.įor over two hundred years, scholars, musicians, and psychologists have studied the world-famous second movement of Beethoven’s 7 th Symphony. The rhythm slowly begins to swell as the entire orchestra joins in. We all know those famous notes: Dunn dun dun dunn dunn. Its soft, haunting rhythm demands your complete attention. ![]()
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