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[demnan]

I heard recently the recording that I loved from the college library they played it on NPR, Eric Kliber conducting - the Vienna Phil - and it brought back to me why this symphony gives me such a thrill. The first and third movements give promise to all Beethoven would become, and his purest beliefs in idealism and all the marvelous philosophy of that era, which influenced our founding fathers so much.

The second movement isn't much, a bit mauldlin but brief. Still this symphony is my personal favorite but I love young idealism. Although I'm also very found of the seventh, for it's the tragic response to the 3rd, the let down from that idealism.

The others I love but I think I've heard them too often.