Awesome video, now rank all Haydn symphonies 😂

The Sixth Symphony is my single all-time favorite piece of "serious" music. My brother gave me a box set of all 9 Beethoven symphonies by the Berlin Philharmonic when I was a little kid (hey, I was a weird kid) and I've been a Peanuts-Shroeder-level Beethoven fanatic ever since. :D Shortly after moving to Florida in the late 80s the local orchestra performed this work, and I was thrilled to be able to hear it live. It really got burned into my heart one Christmas time as my wife and I were careening across the snow-covered South Carolina countryside on the way to visit my aging great aunt, with my wife feeding me a Wendy's Frosty while the 6th played on the car stereo. And a few years ago, the Academy of St. Martin in The Fields performed the symphony here in town, so again I got to hear my favorite work live, this time by one of the world's great small orchestras.

The 4th is vastly underrated. A truly outstanding work full of innovative touches. The opening slow introduction which just seems to wander aimlessly without a tonal center is one such innovation. The syncopated rhythms of the scherzo look forward to the 7th.

I haven't listened to all of the symphonies, but pastoral holds the place in my heart as my favourite right now, and has been for years. I love fate probably the second most, but pastoral is just amazing.

Oh no! The 6th is by far the most intimate and natural of all his works. A nightmare to perform, but sublime! On another note I also firmly believe that one can actually hear the birth of the Romantic period during the finale of the 3rd symphony. Aaaah Beethoven.

The Pastoral is the most beautiful IMHO, but the first movement of the Eroica eclipses everything

You say that Beethoven composed the 4th alongside the 5th as a pair, but I believe the the 5th and 6th were were actually being composed simultaneously by Beethoven. A more accurate claim would be that the pair would be the 5th and 6th, not 4th and 5th.

I don't know what people have against slow movements. In the pastorale, the Andante is WAYY better than the scherzo.

The final movement of the 2nd is one of the best movements Beethoven wrote, and one of the best in all of classical music.

This video introduced me to his 6th symphony and is now my favorite piece of music ever. It's the most perfect uninterrupted sequence of beautiful melody I've ever heard! Well, maybe the fourth movement is an interruption but a good one at least 😎

The Pastoral is my favourite.

The C7 in the opening of the Symphony No. 1 goes hard.

the slow movement from the 2nd is one of my favorite of his entire catalogue, that alone pushes that symphony up around two places

I think the 4th is underated

the sixth symphony the 3rd movement for me is a 100000/10❤for me it is to represent romanticism, passion and love in its purest form.

4:30 I died 😂

Good observation on the slow movements. And yet I prefer nearly any Beethoven 2nd movement over Mozart's. Mozart has only ever written a handful of good or memorable 2nd movements. Actually only the 21st piano concerto comes to mind. The Larghetto from 24th is half-way decent. I crave the end in all other concertors and symphonies. Prove me wrong.

I think the 4th mvt of the 2nd is pretty good. Sounds funny.

4:25 I refuse to believe Pastoral and symphony no.7 are more popular than even just fate.

The 6th isn't programmatic fundamentally. Fundamentally it's about grace

Who is Be - hoven? Is him the nephew of Beethoven?

My list, before watching the video: 1. Symphony No. 3 2. Symphony No. 5 3. Symphony No. 7 4. Symphony No. 8 5. Symphony No. 9 6. Symphony No. 6 7. Symphony No. 1 8. Symphony No. 2 9. Symphony No. 4

My fav is... geezuz... the .... Ahhhhhhh.... Bugger it Piano Concerto No.5😅

Totally disagree about what you say about the 2nd....the slow movement of this symphony is one of the best he ever wrote

I think for me: 9: symphony 4 8: symphony 1 7: symphony 2 6: symphony 3 5: symphony 9 4: symphony 6 3: symphony 5 2: symphony 7 1: symphony 8 I know it's kinda sacrilegious, but well....

Before I watch the video I'll guess the no.1 spot is his gigantic eroica symphony

this dude just put all the even numbers last

The first movement of Beethoven's 2nd Symphony is my favorite movement of the entire classical cannon. But the rest of the symphony sucks. Actually, the second movement is pretty decent.

i dont get why people like the third symphony so much. The first movement is good, but sitting through the second is a feat in and of itself.

My tops in order are 7,8,4,2,3,6,1,5. I hate 9, which is simply tedious to listen to & obviously the work of a grumpy "old" man. Even more ghastly, it has SINGING. (Note that I can whistle/hum all the first 8 all the way thru. I am capable of 9 also, but I wouldn't do it even if mildly tortured.) Oh yes, great vid, tho I'm a bit worried I haven't seen 9 yet. I'm hoping you happened to have forgotten it in the sequel. (I certainly have forgotten it).