Statue of Beethoven at the Conservatory of San Pietro Majella, Naples.
Beethoven - String Quartet op. 130 - Cavatina (by thehappymonkey)
It will generally be admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
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I’ve literally spent all day practicing/listening to/mentally orchestrating this entire sonata.
I love it from the bottom of my soul, and I can’t wait until it’s performance-ready.
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Mozart tells us what it’s like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it’s like to be Beethoven and Bach tells us what it’s like to be the universe.
(via thepianomotif)
Casa Beethoven | Las Ramblas, Barcelona, Spain
© Sergio Occhiuzzo
Today, I went with a friend to the MoMA in New York. This performance art piece was the first thing we saw. It is titled Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a Prepared Piano (2008). Basically, a pianist comes out of a hole carved in a grand piano and plays the fourth movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, while walking. That’s right, he’s pushing a fucking piano around while playing “Ode to Joy” upside down and backwards. As per the description on the wall, “The result is a structurally incomplete version of the signature melody, played with great effort - a contradictory and ambiguous performance of a song that has long been invoked as a symbol of humanist values and national pride.” I usually don’t go for modern art, but this was incredible. I can’t even explain why I liked it so much. I just did.
