Capricious

The evening presents three works the world was slow to savor. Carl Maria von Weber wrote his Oberon overture while dying of tuberculosis. He accepted the London commission with the words, "I am going to London to die." He was gone within weeks of the 1826 premiere. The overture opens with the soft call of a fairy king's magic horn. Franz Berwald, a Swedish Romantic who earned his living running a sawmill and glass factory, finished his Second Symphony, the Capricieuse, in 1842. The score then vanished for half a century, reconstructed from his surviving sketches. Beethoven's genial Fourth Symphony has long stood in the shadow of the Eroica and the Fifth, although Berlioz, Mendelssohn, and Schumann all adored it. Three composers and three works nearly lost to history. One evening to hear them as they deserve.

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