Beethoven Symphony No. 10 - 珍珠湾ART

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Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 10 in E flat major is a hypothetical work. Barry Cooper assembled it from Beethoven's fragmentary sketches and two recordings were released in 1988, one conducted by Wyn Morris^{[1] and the other by Walter Weller. Cooper assembled material for a first movement consisting of an Andante in E-flat major enclosing a central Allegro in C minor. Cooper claims to have also found sketches for a Scherzo which are not developed enough to assemble into a performing version.}

Lately the German composer Gerd Prengel made an attempt to develop these sketches for a Scherzo into a whole symphonic movement; no public performance of this piece has been given so far.

Beethoven never completed a Symphony No. 10. After completing the Ninth Symphony, he devoted his energies largely to composing string quartets, although there are contemporary references to some work on an orchestral piece; allegedly he played some of his ideas for this piece for his friend Karl Holz. Earlier, in 1814-15, Beethoven also began sketches for a 6th piano concerto in D major, Hess 15. (Unlike the putative symphony, the first movement of this concerto was largely written out and a reconstruction by Nicholas Cook has been performed and recorded.)

Calling Barry Cooper's work the "Symphony No. 10" has proven to be rather controversial, since it cannot be proven that all the sketches assembled were even intended to be part of the same piece. Cooper claimed that he found over fifty separate fragments which he wove together to form the symphonic movement.

Though this work remains controversial, there is a consensus that Beethoven did intend to complete another symphony. There are numerous references to it in his correspondence (originally, he had planned the Ninth Symphony to be entirely instrumental, the Ode to Joy to be a separate cantata, and the Tenth Symphony to conclude with a different vocal work).

Johannes Brahms's First Symphony is sometimes referred to as "Beethoven's Tenth Symphony", after a remark by Hans von Bülow.^{[2]^{[3] Both the Brahms work and Cooper's realisation of Beethoven's sketches feature C-minor 6/8 Allegros.}}