Beethoven Symphony No. 5 "Destiny"

In June 1918, Beethoven's Symphony was played for the first time in Japan by the German POW. The performance was held in Tokushima's Bando Prison Camp. Today after four hundred years, four choreographers draw the symphony No. 5 "Fate" which gives an impression to everyone's heart through the body of a single dancer. Destiny moves when Eiji Watanabe is welcomed as a music director and Yasuhiko Imanishi's piano and Mokori Maki's body confront each other.

The Destiny Symphony - Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 67, was written between 1804–1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music, and one of the most frequently played symphonies. First performed in Vienna's Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterward. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as "one of the most important works of the time". As is typical of symphonies in the classical period, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is in four movements.

The symphony, and the four-note opening motif in particular, are known worldwide, with the motif appearing frequently in popular culture, from disco versions to rock and roll covers, to uses in film and television.

Since the Second World War, it has sometimes been referred to as the "Victory Symphony". "V" is the Roman Numeral character for the number five; the phrase "V for Victory" became well known as a campaign of the Allies of World War II. That Beethoven's Victory Symphony happened to be his Fifth (or vice versa) is coincidence. Some thirty years after this piece was written, the rhythm of the opening phrase – "dit-dit-dit-dah" – was used for the letter "V" in Morse code, though this is probably also coincidental. During the Second World War, the BBC prefaced its broadcasts to Europe with those four notes, played on drums

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