After playing the piano for twelve years, five of which have brought me to concert pianist status, I feel I’ve pretty much spanned a wide horizon of piano composers and their compositions. I’ve played the good, the bad, and the ugly, and believe, me, in the realm of classical music, there’s plenty of each. The […]
Tag Archives: Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his Egmont music in 1810 as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s play of the same name, a play about the struggle between freedom and tyranny, and a work that contains expressions of both tragedy and great triumph. The true historian was Count Egmont, a nobleman of Flanders, who had faithfully served Philip […]
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Graduation is one of the biggest milestones in a person’s life, and it can be mixed with emotions. Whether it’s college or college graduation, someone approaching graduation can be simultaneously excited, fearful, proud, and uncertain. Here are the top ten sentences to convey the right words of encouragement and courage to graduates of any age. […]
Journey with me now into the heart of one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries in history: the mystery of Beethoven’s “Immortal Beloved.” Sometime after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death 1827, a letter was found among the composer’s personal effects – in the words of Beethoven scholar Maynard Solomon, “…the only unalloyed love letter of his […]
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Sep
Sep
After the death of the legendary composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, three mysterious letters were found amongst his belongings. These letters were very romantic in nature and addressed to a woman referred to as my Immortal Beloved. It was apparent by the content of these letters that Beethoven and the unnamed woman had been in love, […]
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Aug
Recently I was told about a site where you can record a 10 minute long soundtrack of a song you’ve heard somewhere but don’t know its identity. So we checked it out and spent a few hours listening through the frequent whispers of hundreds of people who have heard the identity of classical music and […]
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Jul
One of the best movies I’ve watched lately is Copying Beethoven. I borrowed it from the library DVD collection, and you can most likely do the same thing, or if you can, check through the library’s Internet catalog to see if it is available somewhere else in the system, you can order it from Netflix, […]