Project 366 - Listener Guide #181




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Summary: "Ash Wednesday" The 1801 ballet music for Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Prometheus), following the libretto of Salvatore Viganò, is the only full length ballet by Beethoven. The original scenario of the ballet is lost, making it difficult to establish the precise context of many of the sixteen numbers of the score and leading to different treatments of the music by various choreographers since. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/TheCreaturesOfPrometheusBallet [First Time on our Podcasting Channel]