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Beethoven's Seventh

KWIT | By Mark Munger

Published June 16, 2015 at 4:42 PM CDT

The volatility of Beethoven defines the public's caricature of the composer. His impassioned love of Napoleon before 1804, and his fiery hatred after, plays directly into this perception. We can hear these passions changing between The Eroica and the Seventh Symphony, the former composed when Napoleon was Beethoven's hope for an egalitarian Europe. The latter was debuted for the Austrian veterans upon Napoleon's defeat. We hear it performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Bernard Haitink directs.

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Mark Munger

Mark Munger first began listening to public radio as a child in the back of his Mom's VW Vanagon, falling in love with the stories on Morning Edition and Prairie Home Companion and the laughter of Click and Clack on Car Talk. Through KWIT, he was introduced to the great orchestras and jazz artists, the sounds of folk and blues, and the eclectic expressions of humanity. This American Life and Radiolab arrived in his formative college years and made him want nothing more than to be a part of the public radio world.

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