![]() ![]() That night in Munich, however, the Philharmonic felt like there was no light, Froschauer says. ![]() The following four movements see humanity struggle through darkness and into the light. Written at a time when the composer was already afflicted with oncoming hearing loss, Beethoven is said to have represented Fate knocking on the door with the ominous “ta-ta-ta-taa” notes that open the symphony. “We felt that this would be the last time we’d play together, for a long time,” Froschauer says of their Munich concert, which ended with Beethoven’s famous Fifth Symphony. But by the time they reached Munich on March 10, Italy had already imposed a lockdown. In early March, the Philharmonic was commemorating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with concerts in cities including Paris, Cologne, and Hamburg. By then, it had only been a few weeks since the Philharmonic’s last performance, but it felt like a lifetime. ![]()
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