NZSO: Beethoven - Symphony #5 in C Minor, Mvts I & II

The NZSO performs the first two movements of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, led by German conductor André de Ridder in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand. Watch the full concert performance of Beethoven's 5th Symphony, alongside his Coriolan Overture and Unsuk Chin’s contemporary work, subito con forza, influenced by the great composer on NZSO+.
Are there four more famous notes in classical music? Beethoven wrote his famous Fifth Symphony between 1804 and 1808. The four-note opening motif is commonly thought to be fate knocking on the door, although there is little evidence that this was what Beethoven had intended.
Author E.T.A. Hoffman, a contemporary of Beethoven’s, wrote that the Fifth Symphony “sets in motion the machinery of awe, of fear, of terror, of pain, and awakens that infinite yearning which is the essence of Romanticism.”