L. van Beethoven, Symphony no. 7 in A major op. 92
The
supremacy of art can be intended as a privileged mean to affirm liberty
of thought, sometimes not permitted, to describe the thrill of life and
the ineluctability of death. Music seen as the artistic projection of a
man in the future, as a guarantee of immortality.
All of these elements are common to the two great symphonic
masterpieces, the VII and the XIV, that Beethoven and Shostakovich have
left as a pledge of their immortality. We do not have to be confused by
the exasperated vitality of Beethoven’s symphony, nor by the gloomy
dismalness in Shostakovich. The first masterpiece hides profound
suffering and mourn, the other score conceals an obstinate research of
the meaning of life.
Gianandrea Noseda
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