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Scblacbt bei Vittoria (Wellington's Victory, or Classical the Battle of Vittoria), an 1813 creation intended for amechanical instrument that had been in- BEETHOVEN: Symphony 10 in E-flat vented by Johann Nepomuk Mâlzel and which The Story of Beethoven's Tenth Symphony (1st movement produced its sounds by means of apinned cyl- only, realized and completed by Barry Cooper) inder. Basically, this , as it was Wyn Morris, Symphony Orchestra; Barry Cooper, narrator & piano called, could imitate an orchestra through its MCA Classics MCAD-6269 (CD), MCA-6269 (LP). Ttygg interior reeds, wind, and percussion, and 11-yggvason, eng.,John Boyden, prod. DDD. TT: 48:48 Beethoven, in exchange for one of the inven- THE ULTIMATE MUSIC BOX tor's ear trumpets, evinced enough interest C.P.E. Bach: Pieces for Mechanical Instruments, •q.193: to provide apiece in praise of the British vic- No.7 for Clockwork Harp; Nos. 19/20 for Clockwork Flute and Harp; No.26 for Mechanical Clarinet; No.29 tory for the machine to play. Three years later, for Cylinder Organ. Beethoven: •Ellington's Victory after some unpleasant battles with Mâlzel over at Vittoria for Panharmonicon, Op.91; 5 Pieces for who had written and who really owned the Clockwork instruments, Wo0 33: Nos.I-3. Handel: piece, Beethoven added aprogrammatic first II Mines for Clay's , Set 1: Nos.1, 2, 5, & 8. Cherub's'', Sonata for Cylinder Organ (1805). movement—the real battle part of the Sym- Haydn: Pieces for Musical Clock (1792), Hob.XDC, Nos. phony—this time scoring the entire, much 18, 19, 22, & 24 longer work for live orchestra. That later two- Christopher Light, David Kraehenbuehl, performer. movement version, of course, is not one of the programmers (Macintosh SE computer; Sequential numbered symphonies; in that non-mech- Prophet 2002 sampler; Yamaha TX812 tone generator) anical version, it has been recorded several Musical Heritage Society MHS 512264K (CD). Hudson Fair, eng.; DDD. Ti': 35:o4 times, usually quite spectacularly. What the Musical Heritage Society CD pur- How many symphonies did Beethoven write, ports to offer, however, is acollection of music anyway? And what does that have to do, if any- written for mechanical musical instruments of thing, with afairly short-measure CD entitled all kinds by a variety of composers, and it The Ultimate Music Box? includes that 6:14 Wellington's Victory on the The latter first: one of Beethoven's more Panharmonicon, all the sounds having been commercial ventures was to write ajust-over- produced by computerized synthesizer. Listen- six -minute -long Wellingtons Sieg, oder die ing to the Beethoven, one can easily under- stand how amazed and impressed an early 19th-century public might have been upon IFor collectors of recording trivia, Itygg itygvasson yeas the recording engineer for the series of deluxe -audiophile" originally encountering this strange machine. recordings that were issued by Gale in 1977. But if the subject and music of letilington's Vic-

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