Well that is one of these pieces that make life worth living
he told one of his students or friends that who ever understands his music ( Beethoven ) will be free from all their trouble in life.
wierd, its allthoug known that he had some anger problems, there was found, i think it was a hair out of beethoven, im not sure if it was something else, and after some research of that hair, scientists found out that he had an unusually high amount of lead in hes body, wich is belived to couse his anger problems
I don't think that this lead was causing his "anger problems". It caused his death. He loved to eat fish in the restaurants of Vienna. But the water these fish were taken from was contaminated with lead. I personally think that these "anger problems" were more like a deep thing, caused by his tremendous creative energy which got into a conflict with the reality of his time. His spirit was so much into the future that he often felt the limits of this certain time and space he lived in.
The conclusion was that he actually most likely had plain old sensineural hearing loss of the type that many get when they age. nothing special at all. they also conclude that his death was probably due to plain old alcoholic liver failure.
He wrote the suicide letter when he was 31, saying he's been suffering for 6 years. Are you saying he lied about his hearing in a suicide letter, or that late 20's is a regular age to get sensineural hearing loss?
One of my favorite pieces ever, and good call on picking Annie Fischer's interpretation, she's the best by far in my opinion : )I love how it's so dynamic and just flows like a river, all the contrasts it has, and so much more that can't be put into words. It's got a lot of light and dark, for example the first movement being so chaotic and dramatic since the very first notes, and so wonderfully "angry" (especially in the hands and heart of Fischer), and the second movement being so clear and fresh. I don't know if this is what Beethoven had in mind when composing this but to me the first movement, being so violent, represents destruction; and the second represents creation, starting so simple and quiet and then evolving into something more and more beautiful. I think it was Nietzsche who said «Out of chaos comes a new order» and I think that applies to a lot of Beethoven's work.
As one of you guys said, he was deaf. this just proofs that Beethoven was the bestand now people might say that liszt, chopin composed better music for the piano, but think about it for a second, he composed hes 9th symphonie totally deaf, allso 2-3 of hes last sonatas, the grosse fuge and many other great works! just wanted to say, i heard this piece first time a year ago (i was 13) and unlike some people today, and nearly every one at beethovens time, i didnt need to listen to it many times to understand it like i have to do to be able to listen to prokofiev and others. this is just an amazing piece.nothing further...
One of my favorite pieces ever, and good call on picking Annie Fischer's interpretation, she's the best by far in my opinion : )
That's because you never heard the version by Edwin Fischer. Too bad Gilels died before recording this. His late Beethoven is sublime too.
that does not prove he is the best. It is remarkable undoubtedly, but I am sure Prokofiev or anyone else could have written pretty good music deaf. We also don't know if it came out the way he wanted it to come out. And anyone with perfect pitch probably could do that.
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