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love Beethoven the best
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Then we listen to Beethoven on a Thursday and love Beethoven the best
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and Beethoven, playing loudly on the stereo,
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Almost any Beethoven or Mozart slow movement would be suitable but I leave the choice to your personal taste
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playing the 5th Symphony by Beethoven
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In the film Immortal Beloved, there is a scene where Beethoven reflects on his Sonata No
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Barely two minutes had passed before the intercom buzzed noisily, again interrupting her beloved Beethoven
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I awoke at several times, and heard Beethoven, Hayden and some opera that I couldn’t
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He was wearing this white ruffled collared shirt, you’ve seen the kind, it was the kind that you’d picture Beethoven wearing when he was putting on his piano concerts in the days of yore
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Beethoven, Aristotle, Darwin, Alexander, Hitler, Plato
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Beethoven, Aristotle, and Darwin were Good
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>>> > > > > And, by the way, the answer to the abortion question: If you said yes, you just killed Beethoven
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To contemplate the work of such giants as Michelangelo, Beethoven, Mozart, Shakespeare, Confucius, Sophocles, Aristotle, Newton, or Einstein is a daunting, possibly depressing experience
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Look what we did for Brahms, Beethoven and the Beatles
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Beethoven was God’s instrument too
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Beethoven was an example of how we can use inner
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it was called Moonlight, and that it was composed by Beethoven
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I knew Beethoven was deaf
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But Moonlight by Beethoven tapped into my soul each time I listened
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The bombast of Beethoven at the Albert Hall thrilled him but had me checking my watch
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The first performer played a few pieces of Chopin for the audience, while the second performer played some Beethoven
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GOOD NEWS PUBLISHED BY BEETHOVEN AT THE THREE KINGS STOP
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It was beautiful and inspiring, written while Beethoven was completely deaf
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Trying to summon a symphony from Beethoven in his head, none came
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He listened to classical music and probably heard some Beethoven, such as his Ninth Symphony
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those time honored classics of Mozart, and Beethoven, but those
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As in a Beethoven symphony, the interplay of all the instruments
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perfect ending was a bit of the old Ludwig Van (Beethoven)
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The book is a companion to an earlier work on the lives of Newton, Beethoven, Dickens, and Van
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I didn’t know you liked Beethoven
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Otherwise, and more like Meatloaf than Beethoven, you could be praying for the end of time
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Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) was a German composer, born in Bonn
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Also like Beethoven, Mozart worked prodigiously hard at his chosen creative expression
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They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears)
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It is the taste that plays Mozart and Bach and Beethoven and wastes no moments with the Mendelssohn sugar or the lesser inspiration of Brahms
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I consider his conducting of the Beethoven choral symphony at
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Mozart and Beethoven sonatas, Chopin, and others for the
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In other ways too, the good days returned: In 1812 Beethoven became
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but for Beethoven it was heaven sent: “Don’t worry, Your Excellency,” he once said
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year Beethoven performed that work at the congress that took place in Vienna after
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(17) were all present, and they paid homage to Beethoven
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walk, Beethoven would meet his friends in the park’s noisy cafés, where “amidst
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him in 1802, leading him to contemplate suicide– also returned, but Beethoven was
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In the professional arena, Beethoven had a prodigious musical output: he
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From then on, Beethoven
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The same year (1820), the city of Vienna proclaimed Beethoven an honorary
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In 1825 –at the age of 55– Beethoven
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The audience went wild, and Beethoven was
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As a result, Beethoven arrived in Vienna seriously ill with
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great Beethoven died –at the age of 57– while a violent storm battered Vienna
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those of Beethoven we’ve seen in the previous chapter, we arrive at a series of
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Combining Picasso’s dates to those of Beethoven and Verdi’s we’ve seen in
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For this purpose, I took the biography of Napoléon I, who was almost an exact contemporary of Beethoven
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that starts with Beethoven and the other that starts with Napoléon I
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For convenience, we’ll call the pattern that starts with Beethoven, the first
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Churchill was appointed prime minister of his country in 1940, or Beethoven
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available in my home library –that of Beethoven
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Beethoven loved abandoned him, he contemplated suicide, but later she came
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Also Beethoven had great successes with his
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And of course, there is also the case of Beethoven: when he also was in a bad
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If Beethoven or Churchill, for example, had given up and accepted their bad
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season from 1792 to 1809, Beethoven realized first the serious problem with his
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1825, Beethoven first learned to cope with his hearing problem, then at the end of
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Let me hear a symphony by Beethoven
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The first moments in a classroom on Tverskaya, then on to the dark bars on Dmitrovka, the overly tender kiss on the cheek, then the light of the Conservatory the first time, up in the balcony behind the crowds, her hand finding mine, her fingers lying sprawled high on my thigh, the smell of sex making me ache, Shostokovitch a cover for intimacies, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven looking on, a world of ideas undermining all laws
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It means in music to prefer Beethoven not only to jazz but to Brahms
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"I say, Bonamy, what about Beethoven?"
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Returning from one of Mozart's grand operas, splendidly performed at the Royal Theatre, he looked over his own, played a few of the best parts, sat staring at the busts of Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Bach, who stared benignly back again
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"What about these composers?" I said, pointing to sheet music by Weber, Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Meyerbeer, Hérold, Wagner, Auber, Gounod, Victor Massé, and a number of others scattered over a full size piano–organ, which occupied one of the wall panels in this lounge
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In the centre of the room was a Roller and Blanchet "baby grand" piano in rosewood, but holding the potentialities of an orchestra in its narrow and sonorous cavity, and groaning beneath the weight of the chefs-d'oeuvre of Beethoven, Weber, Mozart, Haydn, Gretry, and Porpora
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Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh Gutenberg, Patricio Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince of Wales, Thomas Cook and Son, the Bold Soldier Boy, Arrah na Pogue, Dick Turpin, Ludwig Beethoven, the Colleen Bawn, Waddler Healy, Angus the Culdee, Dolly Mount, Sidney Parade, Ben Howth, Valentine Greatrakes, Adam and Eve, Arthur Wellesley, Boss Croker, Herodotus, Jack the Giantkiller, Gautama Buddha, Lady Godiva, The Lily of Killarney, Balor of the Evil Eye, the Queen of Sheba, Acky Nagle, Joe Nagle, Alessandro Volta, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Don Philip O'Sullivan Beare
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She saw more melody in a differential equation than in a piece by Beethoven
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On the rare occasion of a rainout we would switch over to Beethoven, whom Fred particularly admired
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A Beethoven concerto played on the tape deck
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They couldn’t use Berlin as a capital in case it got cut off again, so instead they used Bonn, a quiet little town where nothing much had happened since Beethoven was born there
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Beethoven would come into her house, unannounced, and he would play the piano for her
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He was fond of talking about Shakespeare, Raphael, Beethoven, of the significance of new schools of poetry and music, all of which were classified by him with very conspicuous consistency
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And we study Beethoven
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The more so had Beethoven been played for them
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The same thing happens in the Greek Tragedies, in Vergil, Shakespeare, Goethe, Bach, Beethoven, Raphael and in the new authorities
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5) When people are enthusiastic about Shakespeare, Beethoven, they are enthusiastic about their own thoughts, dreams, which are called forth by Shakespeare, Beethoven, just as people in love do not love the object of their love, but what it calls forth in them
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He explained to me that he had brought some scores, in order to prepare for the Sunday concert, and that they were not in accord as to the piece to choose,—whether difficult, classic things, notably a sonata by Beethoven, or lighter pieces
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There exists an art canon, according to which certain productions favored by our circle are acknowledged as being art,—Phidias, Sophocles, Homer, Titian, Raphael, Bach, Beethoven, Dante, Shakespear, Goethe, and others,—and the æsthetic laws must be such as to embrace all these productions
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People who grew up in the first half of this century, admiring Goethe, Schiller, Musset, Hugo, Dickens, Beethoven, Chopin, Raphael, da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Delaroche, being unable to make head or tail of this new art, simply attribute its productions to tasteless insanity, and wish to ignore them
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But such an attitude toward this new art is quite unjustifiable, because, in the first place, that art is spreading more and more, and has already conquered for itself a firm position in society, similar to the one occupied by the Romanticists in the third decade of this century; and, secondly and chiefly, because, if it is permissible to judge in this way of the productions of the latest form of art, called by us Decadent art, merely because we do not understand it, then remember there are an enormous number of people,—all the laborers, and many of the non-laboring folk,—who, in just the same way, do not comprehend those productions of art which we consider admirable: the verses of our favorite artists—Goethe, Schiller, and Hugo; the novels of Dickens, the music of Beethoven and Chopin, the pictures of Raphael, Michael Angelo, da Vinci, etc
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Then criticism, discussing the artist, says that the work is not bad, but all the same the artist is not a Dante, nor a Shakespear, nor a Goethe, nor a Raphael, nor what Beethoven was in his last period
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As a good illustration of the harmful influence of criticism, take its relation to Beethoven
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Beethoven, however, could not hear, could not perfect his work, and consequently published productions which are artistic ravings
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And imitators appear—an innumerable host of imitators of these abnormal attempts at artistic productions which Beethoven wrote when he was deaf
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Then Wagner appears, who at first in critical articles praises just Beethoven's last period, and connects this music with Schopenhauer's mystical theory that music is the expression of Will—not of separate manifestations of will objectivized on various planes, but its very essence—which is in itself as absurd as this music of Beethoven
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The musical score of Wagner's later operas is like what the result would be should one of those versifiers—of whom there are now many, with tongues so broken that they can write verses on any theme to any rhymes in any rhythm, which sound as if they had a meaning—conceive the idea of illustrating by his verses some symphony or sonata of Beethoven, or some ballade of Chopin, in the following manner
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That same evening, a visitor, an admirable musician, famed for his execution of classical music, and particularly of Beethoven, played us Beethoven's sonata, Opus 101
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For the benefit of those who might otherwise attribute my judgment of that sonata of Beethoven to non-comprehension of it, I should mention that, whatever other people understand of that sonata and of other productions of Beethoven's later period, I, being very susceptible to music, equally understood
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For a long time I used to attune myself so as to delight in those shapeless improvisations which form the subject-matter of the works of Beethoven's later period, but I had only to consider the question of art seriously, and to compare the impression I received from Beethoven's later works with those pleasant, clear, and strong musical impressions which are transmitted, for instance, by the melodies of Bach (his arias), Haydn, Mozart, Chopin, (when his melodies are not overloaded with complications and ornamentation), and of Beethoven himself in his earlier period, and, above all, with the impressions produced by folk-songs,—Italian, Norwegian, or Russian,—by the Hungarian tzardas, and other such simple, clear, and powerful music, and the obscure, almost unhealthy excitement from Beethoven's later pieces that I had artificially evoked in myself was immediately destroyed
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And when I ventured to compare the impression made on me by the singing of the peasant women—an impression which had been shared by all who heard it—with the effect of this sonata, the admirers of Beethoven only smiled contemptuously, not considering it necessary to reply to such strange remarks
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But, for all that, the song of the peasant women was real art, transmitting a definite and strong feeling; while the 101st sonata of Beethoven was only an unsuccessful attempt at art, containing no definite feeling, and therefore not infectious
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First of all, it is not possible to establish any such connection between the former factors and the modern ones, even as the holy life of the first Christian has nothing in common with the lives of popes: thus, the activity of men like Galileo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, has nothing in common with the activities of men like Tyndal, Hugo, and Wagner
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I remember one evening when Lubotshka kept repeating some unbearably tedious passage on the piano about a hundred times in succession, while Woloda, who was dozing on a settee in the drawing-room, kept addressing no one in particular as he muttered, “Lord! how she murders it! WHAT a musician! WHAT a Beethoven!” (he always pronounced the composer’s name with especial irony)
