It is Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony (F major, op.68, called the Pastoral or Pastorale in German) that has five movements. The composition is a program music, its subject is nature and the love of nature. The music has five scenes, each scene is a movement. The last three movements are meant to be played together without pause. Beethoven composed nine symphonies …
Friends! Happy New Year and Happy Beethoven Year to you! 2020 is not just a new year and the beginning of a new decade, but the 250th anniversary of his birth! What a special year! Even without any extraordinary occasion he is the most played composer, but this year we will be witnessing an uninterrupted celebration all over our beautiful …
Ludwig van Beethoven had died on the 26th of March 1827 at the age of 56, in Vienna. Today his grave is in Vienna’s Zentralfriedhof cemetery (show map), grave no.29 in group 32a. This group is dedicated to famous composers, among others Schubert and Brahms. There is no charge to visit the cemetery. Beethoven’s final residence was in the so …
When Beethoven was a child The Enlightenment was in full swing. Bonn, the home city of the Beethoven family, was chief among the German cities advancing the cultural revolution. In 1773 the Pope dissolved the Jesuits that ended their traditional monopoly in education. Accordingly, in Bonn the Jesuit school was turned into a new state school, called Academy. All over …
I was wondering the other day how I could describe the violin to someone in 1 minute. Here are the points I came up with! 1. The name violin comes from the latin vitula, which means stringed instrument. 2. The current form of the violin emerged in the medieval times. This early version we call the fiddle. 3. Although the …
In this article we will discover all the movies that were produced about Beethoven, the composer. Almost every decade since the 1920s had a Beethoven movie and in this post we will review them all. Just to help out Google’s search engine right away this article is not about Beethoven the dog, but Ludwig van Beethoven, the composer! Your correspondent …