Beethoven’s Second Symphony is something of an ›insider tip‹. How can we engage with this symphony? Where should we focus our attention when listening to it? In his Listening Guide, musicologist, pianist and author Arno Lücker takes us on a short trip through Beethoven’s Second.
»No society of musicians and friends of art can remain indifferent to the fact that a Second Symphony by Beethoven has finally been published.« This is how a reviewer described Beethoven’s Second Symphony in 1804. This was true back then and is still is today, although Beethoven’s Second Symphony is, of course, well known — or perhaps not? You can familiarise yourself with the work in the Listening Guide.