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4 Episodes 2011 - 2011
Episode 1
New Year's Day, 1791: the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn - 58 years old, in rude health - is sailing from Calais to Dover. It's a voyage that will take a full ten hours.
Episode 2
Europe at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century, a continent at war with itself. The symphonies revolutionised, changed beyond all recognition in the space of just thirty years by two titanic men, one German and one French.
Episode 3
Vienna, 1876: the place was a building site, the hub of an empire, and a symphony
Episode 4
Vienna, 1912: the certainties of empire were falling away and cataclysmic wars were looming. Through the course of the Twentieth Century, the world would change faster than ever before and composers responded to those changes, too.