Beethoven repeats theme 1 in the first violins, cellos, basses and bassoons while the rest of the orchestra play a C major chord. Beethoven’s first symphony also includes other important movements.

As to the finale, 35 singers plus an orchestra ... Beethoven to his pupil Ferdinand Ries. He intended each of his symphonies, at least from the Eroica onwards, to be a dynamic, transformative ...