[Publius]

No, it's not about Beethoven's link to Ozzy Osbourne. When he was almost totally deaf, and near the end of his life, he produced the Late String Quartets, which mystified many of his contemporaries. Ignaz Schuppanzig, first violinist of the quartet that premiered all of Beethoven's quartets, wrote in Beethoven's conversation book that the quartet was having difficulty understanding these latest quartets.

Beethoven pulled himself up to his full foot-foot-six and said, "Oh, I didn't write these quartets for you! I wrote them for a later generation!" Then he calmed down and said, "Don't worry about it. They'll figure it out eventually."

He was right. Music had to go through the whole Wagner experience and World War I before the Late Quartets made sense. The 33-1/3 RPM long playing record helped.

Quartet in E-flat, Op. 127

Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130

Quartet in C# minor, Op. 131 (The wildest and craziest of his quartets.)

Quartet in A minor, Op. 132

Quartet in F, Op. 135

Among the greatest artifacts of Western Civilization.

[fwdude]

I remember recently listening to one of Beethoven’s later piano sonatas. It sounded just like Scott Joplin rag. The guy was a time traveler.

[tired&retired]

Ludwig van Beethoven was a Heavy Metal composer? Who knew!

[lefty-lie-spy]

Well, duh!
I got into classical music because of what I learned when I first got into heavy metal around the age of nine. I was fortunate to have friends through my school years that realized we all got into something special and awesome. All of the ones I still keep in touch with have the same feeling too.
Metal
My favorite metalhead classical works are Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Stravinsky (and others I can’t recall at the moment). I haven’t listened to my favorite metalhead composers in quite some time, come to think of it; I’ll have to revisit and remember some of my favorites.

Thanks for this cool post.

[dadfly]

bookmark.

[JBW1949]

I am 76 years old and this is the first time I ever saw his name as Ludwig VAN Beethoven...I had always seen or heard Ludwig VON Beethoven....

[A Cyrenian]

All Classical music is old school.

Folks don't recognize it but it's true.

[Bernard]

And all this time I thought it might be “Soap Poisoning”.

[Arcadian Empire]

It’s not a big surprise to feel your temperature rise
You’ve got a touch of redline fever
‘Cause there is just one cure that they know for sure
You just become a heavy metal believer

“Heavy Metal”
written by Don Felder

[dfwgator]

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for posting this. Quite interesting.

[Red Badger]

Queue up Belushi skit.....

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[OKSooner]

Thank you for posting that.

[P.O.E.]

Thanks for those links.

[Sirius Lee]

Screw your wire bands! Everybody knows it’s the late Sonatas which kick ass starting with the Hammerklavier.