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ABOUT THE COMPLEX
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The jubilee year has passed, a number of events dedicated to the great composer remain unfulfilled. But Beethoven is a Borderless Age, his music is an inalienable, constant part of the spiritual life of the world. Born on December 16th, under the fiery sign of Sagittarius, the bowstring of his bow vibrates with the vibrations and shocks of modernity, and his arrows fly far ahead, penetrating time and space, pave paths over which his titanic shadow unfolds – a model, an ideal, a milestone, a law, a philosophy, insights…
There is countless number of pages on historical research and comprehensive analyses on each bar of his works, and there are countless images in art and literature dedicated to his personality and extraordinary destiny. As if hardly anything new could be found and said, as if there is nothing hidden from the huge audience of his fans. One can only recall important moments, specific details related to the creation and life of his works. The new aspect are the time-varying interpretations and constantly changing individual treatments of Beethoven’s music.
Among the most favourite pieces for the performers and audiences are his seven instrumental concerti: the five piano ones, the violin one and the triple – for piano, violin and cello one. By them, Beethoven greatly expands the idea of the traditional classical genre. The organic synthesis between the solo instrumental part and the orchestra, the richness and depth of the musical ideas and emotions, the masterful elaboration of the themes bring these concerts closer to symphonies featuring a solo instrument. At the same time, the composer preserves and maximizes the virtuosity characteristic of the genre and, in fact, by his concerts outlines the way to the grandiose instrumental concerts in the age of romanticism.