And the
allegretto
of the seventh symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven rose, over the official statement of Eric Zemmour.
Too much volume lamented some Internet users on Twitter.
Between the obscurity of this work, the vintage BBC-style microphone, Blue Baby Bottle type (with
“an atypical look but without much audio interest
” for a specialist) and the serious tone of the polemicist, some will see it as a tribute to the General. de Gaulle and the Appeal of June 18.
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Others were struck by the similarity between the new presidential candidate and King George VI, played by Colin Firth in
Tom Hooper's
King's Speech
, where the German composer's aria punctuates the speech of the British sovereign. .
The monarch, affectionately known as "Bertie," suffered from a cartoonish stutter.
By dint of hard work, however, he did not have to be ashamed of his radio announcement of September 3, 1939, the day the United Kingdom entered the war.
A victory of one man over fate ...
Beethoven's Seventh Symphony has often been used in cinema. From the 1930s with
Edgar George Ulmer's
Le Chat noir
. Should this be seen as a bad omen? It can also be found in Luc Jacquet's documentary,
The March of the Emperor,
but also in
Adieu au langue
by Jean-Luc Godard or in
Irréversible
by Gaspard Noé! Beethoven, whose ninth, it should be remembered, also served as the soundtrack for A Clockwork
Orange
by Stanley Kubrick. Ninth which is also the hymn to joy and that of a Europe that the now presidential candidate does not carry in his heart.
In advertising too, the seventh is a real “hit”.
A sunset, a coffin, flowers and a deep voice.
In 2011, the movement chosen by Éric Zemmour was used in particular by Roc-Eclerc, the funeral director!
The
allegretto
chosen by Éric Zemmour is the second of the four movements of the seventh symphony.
If this composition was created on December 8, 1813, during a patriotic charity concert given for the soldiers wounded during the battle of Hanau, this movement was sketched out by Beethoven in 1806, when the Napoleonic army invaded the plains. of Prussia and that Austria had been under the French yoke for a year.
“Certainly, the detestation of the Emperor Napoleon I, the thirst for freedom, the exhaustion of Austria under the yoke of the occupier are one of the possible explanations for the conquering energy which runs through Symphony No. 7 . We could add, by taking up the musician's biography, the disappointment caused by his break-up with Countess Thérèse of Brunswick, followed by the amorous friendship he had with Bettina Brentano, ”
explains Stéphane Friédérich on the Radio Classique site.
The
allegretto
is quite paradoxical, because it is a slow and dismal walk.
Funeral, some say.
This is why the appellation
andante
(“going” in Italian)
has often been preferred
to this aria which Richard Wagner thought represented
“the apotheosis of dance”
.
Gustav Mahler had another opinion on this symphony which he considered martial, even worrying:
"When I'm done with the finale, I have the impression of being a schoolboy who has been punished although 'he didn't do anything wrong ... "