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Young pianist Matthew Figel opens the ACO season finale by making his Lincoln Center debut in a performance of Mozart’s Concerto No. 17, which was written for Mozart’s student, Barbara Ployer. Soon after the work’s popular first performance, Mozart came across a bird-seller with a starling that sang something like the theme of the finale. He purchased the bird as a pet and honored it with a funeral when it died. The program comes to a close with a period instrument performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, which not only presented a bold departure from the structured symphonic form of the time but also laid the foundation for the passionate sounds of the Romantic era to come. Unlike anything audiences had heard in Classical symphonic style, the work exuded emotional themes of heroism and resilience that impacted the work of major composers for years to come.

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