Beethoven - Symphony No. 8

Beethoven - Symphony No. 8

In honor of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th anniversary in 2020, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería performed Beethoven’s symphonic cycle at the Academia de Música del Palacio de Minería in Mexico City in 2019. Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto leads the orchestra in this performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93. Prieto has been serving as music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería since 2008, and is considered the foremost Mexican conductor of his generation. Beethoven composed his Symphony No. 8 in 1812, immediately after he completed his Symphony No. 7. This symphony is the shortest of all Beethoven’s symphonies. It is believed that Beethoven attempted to mimic a metronome – a tool recently invented by a friend of his - in the sixteenth-note pattern played by the woodwinds throughout the symphony’s second movement. Symphony No. 8 consists of four movements: Allegro con brio e vivace, Allegretto scherzando, tempo di menuetto, and Allegro vivace.