Word: crueller
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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This showed especially in the "Egmont" Overture, a piece built upon tensions and climaxes which were just not there. But even crueller were passages in the second and last movement of the Symphony, which build to powerful, triumphant counter-rhythms that were simply diluted away. The majestic main theme of the finale never reached a logical fulfillment. The examples go on and on; always the inevitability of Beethoven's structure was underplayed or destroyed...
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