Explosiones diversas

The laboratory yields its first public fruits. We will finally see how Sonatas no. 11 to no. 20 and the refinement of the Quartets op. 18 culminate in these two first symphonies. If the first could be spoken of as an "amplified quartet," in the second Beethoven begins to use the physical force discovered in Sonata no. 8, "Pathétique." The proportions still show a Beethoven who "writes for his time," but his experimentation already begins to overflow the classical molds.