Perhaps not many care, but today is Ludwig von Beethoven‘s 243rd birthday! I’m celebrating by spending my day listening to classical music. Not all his, though.
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If you were 243 years old today, you’d be a grump, too! [Getty Images]
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Here’s a great Beethoven composition that I discovered after I saw the King’s Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHREyE5GzQ
…mentioning the movie elsewhere made me think of this, so I came back here … All WordPress’ posts are connected in a way 🙂
Powerful, isn’t it?
I see a battlefield, at the start, victors and vanquished both at a loss to answer the central questions of their existence: Why? Why me:? Why US?! To what end? 😐
When the clarinet solo comes in, the scene starts to clarify, combatants stand, gather themselves, see a path forward, and move slowly, of a mind, into it. “Victory” is survival, not political will imposed. 🙂
That’s my sense of it this morning. Tomorrow, I might see a different struggle.
Happy birthday Beethoven! He made a great contribution to music. I find it crazy how he was able to compose even after he had gone deaf. That’s some real talent.
Indeed! He used to abuse his pianos mercilessly, possibly in an effort to “feel” the music. I don’t know.
Love Beethoven! Good for you, WB.
After a Charpentier mass and some Haydn piano concertos, I relented and put on some Alfred Brendel performances of the Beethoven sonatas. It is his birthday, after all!