An Early Evening Stroll
tue 8 jul 2025 19:00 hrs
We are currently in the the middle of the year 2025, but for this episode we will travel back to the year 1825, when the Romantic Movement was still young. Today, we will listen to late pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Anton Reicha (1770-1836), and Franz Schubert (1797-1828), and early works by Louise Farrenc (1804-1875), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) and Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Beethoven and Reicha were already older in 1825 and had had long careers. Farrenc – Reicha’s student – and the Mendelssohns were still young and at the start of their careers. Schubert was still young, but would pass away only a few years later. In the 1820s, he was burdened by poverty and illness, but his works were already enthusiastically received, including by Beethoven.
