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Moonlight Sonata: at the school of Pietro Rigacci. A single slip of the tongue: the one who said that the second movement resembles a flower between two abysses was Liszt and not Berlioz. Bo...
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danielescarpetti
Sunday, December 7th at 6 PM, La Scala will open its new opera season with Beethoven's Fidelio. It will be the last time with Barenboim on the podium as chief conductor and, it is very signi...
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Rai Cultura presents “Petruska meets Daniel Barenboim”. The great Argentine musician Daniel Barenboim is the protagonist of the episode that Rai Cultura broadcasts on Thursday, December 4th...
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danielescarpetti
A question for the Beethoven "super-experts." Just a little while ago, I posted in the "Reports" section an announcement for a concert that will take place on Saturday the 6th, on the occasi...
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OrlandiArmando
Philology or not?... Where were we? Ah yes: if the piano can be used for Bach with a special thought to Ludwig Rellstab :-)
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Frank
I read on Wiki: piano sonata no. 18, sometimes called by the title "The Hunt" (a nickname not exactly from the author who only titled the two sonatas op 27 and the sonata op 81a), constitute...
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OrlandiArmando
Beethoven changes your life! That's what the great Piero Farulli used to say But now the members of the Quartetto di Cremona are saying it too. I cannot say if Beethoven changes life since h...
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Beethoven's grandmother I didn't know her, they just can't come up with anything new anymore... I imagine the little ones have a lot of fun, but the lyrics ... :?
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Hello, i would like to delve deeper into the subject in question, namely Beethoven's late quartets. What bibliography would you recommend? Thanks in advance
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LucaCavaliere
HISTORICAL RECORDING Ludwig van Beethoven – The five piano concertos – Arthur Schnabel – Chicago Symphony Orchestra – 1932 – 1942 http://www.classicistranieri.com/ludwig-van-beethoven-i-cinq...
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Dear FRIENDS, As of this evening, the article written by Luigi regarding the first performances and the first editions of Christus am Ölberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives) Opus 85 by our L...
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danielescarpetti
A visitor to my site disputed the name of Princess Christine Lichnowsky, the dedicatee of the variations WoO 45, claiming that her name was actually Christiane. I did some research and found...
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OrlandiArmando
Solomon Maynard: Beethoven. Life, work, the family novel http://www.ibs.it/code/9788831763462/beethoven-vita-opera/solomon-maynard.html What do you think? Does the description reflect realit...
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Hi, beyond the technicalities, what relationships do you find between Beethoven's Coriolan and Brahms' Tragic Overture? ... I would also like to hear the opinion of the self-proclaimed Beeth...
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In letter no. 153 of August 27 to the publisher Breitkopf & Härtel, Kaspar Anton Karl van Beethoven proposed the publication of "variations for piano, violin and cello with introduction and...
Emanuel Schikaneder, better known for having written the libretto of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, was the artistic director of Vienna's main and largest theater: the Theater an der Wien – forme...
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LucaCavaliere
hello everyone, It seems to me that Carlos Keiber has not recorded the First, Second, Third, Eighth and Ninth symphonies. Am I wrong? Has he conducted them on any occasion, anyway? Has he ev...
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danielescarpetti
This Beethoven work, which until 1865 belonged to the publisher Diabelli, was then mysteriously lost. Only some drafts and sketches remain at the Beethoven-haus, including a page with the in...
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Good evening everyone, I would like to know what you consider to be the best available recording of Beethoven's string quartets (I have a vague idea of getting a recording but which one.......
I am reporting this PDF relating to the Beethoven-Haus Bonn http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/media.php/38/kurzf_hrer_i_2008.pdf It seems well done to me, what do you think?
Hi everyone, I wanted some advice on which Beethoven sonata to approach first (I'm putting it here because I would also like an aesthetic opinion from the Beethovenians haha), the sonatas in...
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Frank
Statue in honour of Ludwig van Beethoven in Bonn http://www.tripadvisor.it/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g187370-d4456924-i73966441-Estatua_de_Beethoven-Bonn_North_Rhine_Westphalia.html
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