🎶 Beethoven Symphony No. 1

 

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Symphony No. 1 

in C-dur (1799-1800), op. 21

1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio

2. Andante cantabile con moto

3. Menuetto. Allegro molto e vivace

4. Finale. Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace

 

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Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)

(1964/25:51)

Classical Music Archive:

classical-music-online.net

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George Szell  (1897-1970) was a Hungarian-born conductor. He is widely considered one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors.  He is remembered today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra of Cleveland, Ohio, and for the recordings of the standard classical repertoire he made in Cleveland and with other orchestras.

Szell came to Cleveland in 1946 to take over a respected if undersized orchestra, which was struggling to recover from the disruptions of World War II.  By the time of his death he was credited, to quote the critic Donal Henahan, with having built it into "what many critics regarded as the world's keenest symphonic instrument."

Szell quickly realized that he was never going to make a career out of being a composer or pianist, and that he much preferred the artistic control he could achieve as a conductor.  The Vienna Symphony's conductor had injured his arm, and Szell was asked to substitute. Szell quickly turned to conducting full-time.

At the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, Szell was returning via the U.S. from an Australian tour; he ended up settling with his family in New York City. From 1940 to 1945 he taught composition, orchestration, and music theory at the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan.

He died in 1970.

To learn more: Wikipedia:
George Szell

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