Posted on 11/04/2010 7:19:12 PM PDT by WesternCulture
I enjoyed Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Beethoven in “Immortal Beloved”
If you could find the time to listen to the most heavenly piece of music ever composed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mvutiDRvQ
As far as I’ve always been concerned, the tenor solo is the pinnacle of all music.
I enjoyed Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Beethoven in “Immortal Beloved”
- What was the point of “Immortal Beloved” according to you?
(You don’t have to answer if you don’t wish to)
Come on and Rock me, Amadeus
I’m a fan.
“No doubt, Beethoven was a musical genius.”
- This guy took a piece of great lyrics, put music to it and made the most admired symphony of all ages, while being DEAF - and you call him a “musical” genius.
I understand you don’t wish to offend, but please realize that Beethoven, Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci are like gods to us Europeans.
Leonardo wasn’t any other painter around, Einstein didn’t just fool around in Physics and Beethoven created so much more than music.
Beethoven understood what Shiller was on about and gave it all another dimension.
Greetings from Gothenburg, Sweden
Those Nazi bastards deserved every single bomb that got in Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin and DRESDEN. After visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau last week, I have no pity for Dresden or any of the fire-bombed reich cities. Too bad they allowed their country to be ruled by a psychopath.
“I’m a fan.”
- I wish to call you “brother”:)
“Those Nazi bastards deserved every single bomb that got in Hamburg, Cologne, Berlin and DRESDEN. After visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau last week, I have no pity for Dresden or any of the fire-bombed reich cities. Too bad they allowed their country to be ruled by a psychopath.”
- We should not forgive Hitler.
Wars are a part of human nature.
That was as far as I got.
I wonder if he's ever heard of Guernica?
“70 years ago, Britain and America together murdered the industrial capacity of Continental Europe.”
70 years ago the USA was at peace and Britain was fighting alone for its life against NAZI Germany. And “neutral” Sweden was doing its part helping supply the NAZI war machine. Please spare me your disgusting sympathy for all the NAZIs we managed to kill while saving Europe from its own home-grown monsters.
By the way, has Sweden freed the boy it kidnapped yet? Or is Dominic Johansson still held hostage by the totalitarian Swedish nanny state?
The problem is, you also gave us Kant and Nietzsche and Gropius.
Beethoven fugues are great. The Hammerklavier's still eludes me, but I've got Op. 109 and 110 fairly performance ready now. Learning these has been a long journey and my first teacher insisted that I start learning them in order from Op. 2 but I skipped around later, and a few don't move me at all (Op. 22).
I’m sorry, but James Horner is a far superior composer. Listen to, “An Odd Discovery, Through the Trees.”
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