Ludwig van Beethoven followed his percussive, brooding Fifth Symphony with an ode to nature. The piece bursts with idyllic passages, including sounds of a brook and a thunderstorm.
Yet Symphony No. 6 is more than a summer stroll. It shows off the composer's inventiveness, as well as his drive to write music that eclipsed the work of predecessors like Haydn and Handel.
Watch a performance
Watch Paavo Jarvi conduct the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen performing Beethoven's Sixth Symphony: