Although my main man for the past 16 years has been Bach, for the first 20 years of my listening it was Ludvig van. I don't listen to his symphonies anymore (except for the first and ninth), but his piano music and his string quartets never seem to wear themselves out. This is a great find.
1 posted on
10/13/2005 4:11:50 AM PDT by
Pharmboy
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10/13/2005 4:12:20 AM PDT by
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3 posted on
10/13/2005 4:14:15 AM PDT by
Bahbah
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Looks like old Ludwig was a paintball fan:
4 posted on
10/13/2005 4:15:36 AM PDT by
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6 posted on
10/13/2005 4:15:51 AM PDT by
nmh
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Rather a pig when it came to clean hands if the manuscript is to be believed . . . .
I can only imagine what the keyboard looked like . . .
7 posted on
10/13/2005 4:16:00 AM PDT by
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Imagine finding that, and off it goes to the auction house...
13 posted on
10/13/2005 4:27:43 AM PDT by
cloud8
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BUMP FOR THE BEST MUSICIAN OF ALL AGES!
14 posted on
10/13/2005 4:35:21 AM PDT by
F14 Pilot
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Thanks for the post. Really interesting!
16 posted on
10/13/2005 4:53:54 AM PDT by
dawn53
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Shouldn't that be An Historic Discovery?
21 posted on
10/13/2005 5:34:11 AM PDT by
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25 posted on
10/13/2005 5:44:30 AM PDT by
dfwgator
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Absolutely amazing!
Cool beyond words.
28 posted on
10/13/2005 5:53:35 AM PDT by
Skooz
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I'm sorry to say that A Clockwork Orange has forever tainted my enjoyment of Ludwig Van.
36 posted on
10/13/2005 6:19:00 AM PDT by
zeugma
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I just downloaded Noteworthy Pomposer and will try to make a MID that all can link to to hear what it sounds like. Check back in a couple days.
43 posted on
10/13/2005 6:46:38 AM PDT by
Sensei Ern
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49 posted on
10/13/2005 7:09:31 AM PDT by
kayak
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You are absolutely right about the string quartets and piano music never wearing themselves out. I'm looking for a good set of the string quartets, so if anyone has any suggestions, I would enjoy reading them.
But a good recording of any one of the Beethoven symphonies can trick me into thinking I am hearing it for the very first time. Unfortunately, many of our most revered conductors, past and present, have butchered his music and taken artistic license when there was no need to do so. Most of his symphonies are nearly perfect as written.
All this is personal opinion, of course. If we all liked the same things, this would be one boring world.
Oddly, I have never been drawn to much Bach. I certainly recognize the genius and know how prolific he was. I am much more drawn to Handel or the Italians.
68 posted on
10/13/2005 8:46:12 AM PDT by
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Ludwig Van Ping. :-)
Interesting.
104 posted on
10/13/2005 12:43:58 PM PDT by
Ramius
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"Beethoven, who, never satisfied, honed his ideas brutally"
That's blood on the pages!!!!
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