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Given that he was excoriated by Joseph Goebbels as an 'atonal musician' whose work debased German womanhood, it is hardly surprising the noted composer and violinist found the general artistic climate in the Third Reich increasingly uncongenial. While his talents were greatly appreciated during the resulting sojourn in Turkey, where he was Kemal Atatürk's chosen instrument to modernise Turkish music, his was hardly an uneventful life
The Sixth is the outlier among Beethoven’s symphonies, rural and rustic where the others are driven and dramatic. Richard Osborne makes a selection of the best versions from a rich recorded history