[luvie]

SILLY LOVE SONGS--

Gary Morris~The Wind Beneath My Wings

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[Publius]

When you play this piece for people who think they know classical music but really don’t, and you ask them to guess the composer, the first guess is always “Stravinsky”. You can smile like a Cheshire cat when you show them the cover and they see it’s by Beethoven.

It was intended to be the finale of the Opus 130 quartet, but it was so long that Beethoven pulled it, wrote a square dance finale for the quartet and set this up as a separate piece. This is Beethoven one hundred years ahead of his contemporaries and forcing them to eat his dust. No wonder the members of the Schuppanzigh Quartet didn’t understand it.

Beethoven: Great Fugue in B-flat, Op. 133