Photo: LSO concludes the concert cycle “Symphony Closer” with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

In the post-concert conversation, the host of the program Orests Silabriedis talked to the director of the Liepāja Latvian Society House Vita Hartmanis.

The Seventh Symphony, composed in 1812, is a chrestomathy masterpiece, one of Beethoven’s best works – at least that is how he himself premiere it in 1813 in Vienna. In any case, it is one of his most interesting works – beautiful music with a significant slow part, which today has become almost pop music.

Music researchers call the time of the creation of this composition the happiest stage of Beethoven’s life, when the composer was mature, in love and appreciated by the audience. This is the time when Beethoven creates one masterpiece after another.

His Seventh Symphony is admired for the tremendous, vital, tumultuous energy that is embedded in it. It’s a big challenge for musicians. Peter Tchaikovsky once wrote about the structure of this symphony that it is amazing how diverse this part is.

Playing Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, LSO started this concert cycle with Guntis Kuzma, and now it ended together.

LSO representative Dzintars Hmieļevskis informs that all the symphonies that have been performed in the cycle are still freely available for viewing in the video gallery of the orchestra’s website.