Symphony

Subject – Art and Culture

Context – A team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony

Concept –

A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, written by composers, most often for orchestra.
Written for an orchestra, symphonies often contain four movements: the first is performed at a fast tempo, the second at a slower one, the third at a medium or fast tempo and the last at a fast tempo.
Symphonies are almost always scored for an orchestra consisting of a string section (violin, viola, cello, and double bass), brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments which altogether number about 30 to 100 musicians.
Symphonies are notated in a musical score, which contains all the instrument parts.
Orchestral musicians play from parts which contain just the notated music for their own instrument. Some symphonies also contain vocal parts (e.g., Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony).

Ludwig van Beethoven

He was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music;
His works rank amongst the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music.