Beethoven wrote a programmatic title at the beginning of each movement:Įrwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem LandeĪwakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside The symphony has five, rather than the four movements typical of symphonies preceding Beethoven's time. Strings Violins I, II Violas Cellos Double basses Percussion Timpani (fourth movement only, in F and C (Tonic-dominant)) Woodwinds 1 piccolo (fourth movement only) 2 flutes 2 oboes 2 clarinets in B ♭ 2 bassoonsīrass 2 horns in F and B ♭ 2 trumpets in C and E ♭ (third, fourth, and fifth movements only) 2 trombones ( alto and tenor, fourth and fifth movements only) The symphony is scored for the following instrumentation: D'Accone suggested that Beethoven borrowed the programmatic ideas (a shepherd's pipe, birds singing, streams flowing, and a thunderstorm) for his five-movement narrative layout from Le Portrait musical de la Nature ou Grande Symphonie, which was composed by Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752–1817) in 1784. Both symphonies were premiered in a long and under-rehearsed concert in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 22 December 1808.įrank A. It was composed simultaneously with Beethoven's more famous Fifth Symphony. The first sketches of the Pastoral Symphony appeared in 1802. The composer said that the Sixth Symphony is "more the expression of feeling than painting", a point underlined by the title of the first movement. He frequently left Vienna to work in rural locations. Beethoven was a lover of nature who spent a great deal of his time on walks in the country.
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