Entracte n°1

Beethoven’s Septet in E flat major, a youthful work composed in 1799 and premiered to immediate success, remained for a long time one of the composer’s most popular works. Beethoven nevertheless eventually rejected it, judging in retrospect that this music was too lightweight and regretting that audiences preferred his more demanding works, written when his deafness and isolation led him towards a deeper and more personal conception of art.