Plenty of composers have written symphonies in the history of music. However, there is only one whose nine (rather, the ninth) symphonies impacted it so much that for about a century, not another symphony composer could make himself independent from his influence. This genius was Beethoven, who was nearly thirty himself when he got around to writing his first symphony, and who penned that distinguished ninth, which determined the future. We can witness the outset and the final station of his symphonic path at this concert.