An Early Evening Stroll
tue 8 jul 2025 19:00 hrs
We are currently mid year 2025, but for this episode we will travel back to the year 1825 for a moment, when the Romantic Movement was still young. Today, we will listen to late pieces from 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.
