![]() ![]() It was he who persuaded his friend the composer to adapt the piece for orchestra it was he, too, who was the prime mover behind the charity concert for the benefit of war victims’ families. It took place in the great auditorium of the University on 8 December 1813 the repertoire included, apart from what was heralded as “an entirely new symphony,” two marches – one by Dussek and one by Pleyel, both performed by Mälzl’s mechanical trumpeter with orchestra, and Beethoven’s short programme symphony Wellington`s Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria (Wellington’s Victory or Battle of Vittoria), first written for panharmonicon, a musical contraption devised by the ingenious Mälzl, the inventor of the metronome. 92 became one of Beethoven’s greatest successes. The concert that featured the first performance of Symphony No. ![]()
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