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Sonata per uno mulaticco lunattico

lucia__is__dada — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:44:32 -0800

Beethoven's Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A, Op. 47 (audio) was originally dedicated to the black violin virtuoso George Bridgetower after he gave such a brilliant rendering of the piece that prompted Beethoven to jump from his seat and embrace him. Bridgetower was a musical child prodigy and composer who, despite rampant racial prejudice, reached "unusual heights in the music world of his day". Having lived and performed in major European cities such as London, Paris, and Vienna, he would later die forgotten and in poverty. A personal disagreement with Bridgetower led Beethoven to dedicate the sonata to the famous violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer instead who, incidentally, never played it in public deeming it “outrageously unintelligible”. For the object fetishists: a tuning fork given by Beethoven to Bridgetower is on show at the British Library.

The Beethoven piano sonatas

Gyan — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:30:10 -0800

Andras Schiff's lecture-recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas

What I learned from Sergiu Celibidache

matteo — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:31:40 -0800

Music is nothing.
Sound could become music.
The end must be in the beginning,
and the beginning in the end.
I am here because I am not here.
Music lives in the eternal now.
Music is the now becoming now.
What I learned from Sergiu Celibidache, by Markand Thakar. More inside.

Beethoven's Ninth: the Score

matteo — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:47:47 -0800

Beethoven's Ninth -- the score.

Beethoven 6, 7, 8 and 9

soplerfo — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:24:23 -0800

As a follow up to this earlier thread, the BBC has just posted the final installment of their Beethoven Experience, free mp3s of Beethoven's symphonies 6 through 9. Get them while you can, they're only up for a week (Number 6 goes down on Monday).