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Four Beethoven Symphony Cycles – Blomstedt, Blunier, Weil, and Martynov

by C. Michael Bailey
November 18, 2017

My opinion may be little better than the layman's, but I believe it is incorrect to consider Beethoven's cycle of nine symphonies the 'bedrock of western music." It is not. The bedrock of western music was beginning to be established with the plainchant of the sixth century, evolving through the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods, where ...