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Of the scathing reviews that followed, one at least — in the ''Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung'' — was prescient enough to say the following: “To judge all these pieces after only one hearing, especially considering [...] that so many were performed in a row, and most are so grand and long, is impossible.” | Of the scathing reviews that followed, one at least — in the ''Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung'' — was prescient enough to say the following: “To judge all these pieces after only one hearing, especially considering [...] that so many were performed in a row, and most are so grand and long, is impossible.” | ||
To the punchline then: In this concert, said young foreign composer was Ludwig Van Beethoven, and in that one concert he premiered his | To the punchline then: In this concert, said young foreign composer was, of course, Ludwig Van Beethoven, and in that one concert he premiered his ''Symphony No. 6'' (“Pastoral”), his Piano Concerto No. 4, the aforementioned ''Choral Fantasia''. If that wasn’t enough — and surely the ''Pastoral'', by itself, would have been enough of an event to make the record for humankind’s highest achievement — after the interval, the orchestra performed the premiere of the most revolutionary piece of music, bar ''none'' ever written: the theme to ''Saturday Night Fever'',<ref>I am sorry. I couldn’t resist.</ref> then known as Symphony No. 5.<ref>Anyone interested in Beethoven’s symphonies — that is, in Jimi Hendrix’s words, “everybody here with hearts — ''any'' kind of hearts — and ears” — should check out Professor Robert Greenberg’s [https://robertgreenbergmusic.com/download/beethoven-symphonies/ lectures about Beethoven].</ref> | ||