Happy Sestercentennial Ludwig van Beethoven!

[Daniel_Doyce | 470]

Happy 250th to classical OG.

What are your favorite Beethoven works? Today I'm listening to:

Symphony #9, Liszt piano transcription (a technical masterpiece)

Kreutzer Sonata

Last 3 piano sonatas

Choral Fantasia

and some string quartets.

[DoctorEncore | 3,691]

I can't believe it's already been 250 years since that precocious canine hilariously ruined Charles Grodin's house while bringing him closer to his family. Rollover Beethoven, indeed.

[Tabonga | 2,317]

There was a married couple that happened to be staying overnight at a hotel in Vienna.  They arrived in the early evening and weren't very tired so they decided to take a stroll.  They came across a cemetery and decided it might be interesting to wander through it.  They came up behind one tombstone and were surprised to hear something coming from it.  They couldn't figure out what it was for sure but suspected it was  music of some sort being played backwards.  An elderly gentleman wandered by and they asked him if he heard it also.  He said he did and then they asked him if they knew what it was.  To which he replied:

Spoiler

"Yes I do - that is Beethoven's grave - he is decomposing."

 

[Estil | 1,264]

And here is when Beethoven's #1 superfan commemorated the big 2-0-0 in 1970 (strips Dec 14-16, 1970):

https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/December_1970_comic_strips

Edited December 17, 2020 by Estil

[Daniel_Doyce | 470]

Mixed it up a bit today during the year of Beethoven by listening to Saint-Saens' Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, Op.35. Saint-Saens is such an underrated composer with a lot of relatively overlooked chamber music.