Beethoven’s “Pastoral Sextet”

December 16, 2020
7:30pm (EST-USA)
Live-Streamed
from the Recital Hall of
Moravian Music Foundation

Drei Equale Ludwig van Beethoven
____ Four-part music for trombones

Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” Ludwig van Beethoven
____ Fischer transcription for string sextet

We may not know Beethoven’s exact birthdate, but we know that it was mid-December in 1770. In honor of the great composer’s 250^th birthday and the community-wide BTHVN Rocks Winston-Salem collaboration, the Winston-Salem Symphony and the Moravian Music Foundation are coming together for this special performance.

The Moravian Music Foundation has a rare 1^st edition of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony in its archives; musicians will be playing from a 1^st edition of the Fischer transcription. This concert celebrates 1^st editions of Beethoven’s Music at the Moravian Archives, in the Salem Collegium Musicum Collection of the Moravian Music Foundation.

Information about the first edition of the full orchestral Pastoral Symphony in the Moravian Archives.

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More Concert Information:

The Moravian Music Foundation (MMF) will host a live-streamed chamber music concert featuring music of Ludwig van Beethoven. On Dec. 16, musicians from the Winston-Salem Symphony will perform a string sextet arrangement of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony in F Major “Pastoral” (op. 68, 1808). The arrangement is by Michael Gotthard Fischer, a contemporary of Beethoven.

Learn more about Moravian music – publications, recordings and videos – and all of MMF’s concerts at www.MoravianMusic.org and on Facebook.

In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Moravian Music Foundation Research Librarian, David Blum, made some fascinating discoveries of several first editions of Beethoven’s music in the Moravian archive collections in both Winston-Salem and Bethlehem, PA!

The first such realization was a first edition of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony (known as the “Pastoral Symphony”) in an 1809 edition by Breitkopf & Härtel (Leipzig) based on printing plate numbers found on the publication.

Since that first realization, David has examined other Beethoven scores to find that the Moravian Music Foundation holds as many as five first editions: the 8th (1817) and 9th (1826) Symphonies, “Weihe des Hauses” (The Consecration of the House Overture, 1825), and the overture now known as the Leonora #3 (1810).

Beethoven’s
Overture
to Leonore
No. 3
_{David Levy with Dave Blum}