I mean, even Disney recognized it when they put Apollo and his chariot of fire pulling the sun into sunset, and waving to all the centaurs, satyrs, pegasus, at this part of the song.
Posted by LudWig (Member # 13490) on :
Late Beethoven is on a higher plane of spirituality and transcendence.
Posted by LudWig (Member # 13490) on :
Though I adore the Pastoral ofc!
Posted by Wingracer (Member # 12293) on :
*I'm done with the distracting*
Posted by JanitorBlade (Member # 12343) on :
Love me some One Winged Angel, but I'm not sure it holds up to Beethoven's best.
Posted by LudWig (Member # 13490) on :
lvb originally intended this piece to be the middle movement of the Waldstein sonata but he ended up discarding it for reasons of structural integrity. A damn shame he couldn't make it work, because he was very proud of it, and it did become instantly popular in its day just like the ubiquitous (in cinema anyway) 2nd movement of the 7th symphony.
NOT Beethoven related but something interesting/funny I discovered last week re classical music.
In 1962 there was a performance of the Brahms d-minor piano concerto by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein. The soloist was Glenn Gould.
Bernstein submitted to Gould's artistic will as to how the piece should be performed (in an unorthodox way with a slower than usual tempo). But he felt the need to make a little speech before the performance distancing himself from the result.
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