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Topic: Beethoven Concerto No. 4 or No. 5?  (Read 1514 times)

Offline yellowcat12345

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Beethoven Concerto No. 4 or No. 5?
on: July 18, 2015, 07:22:18 AM
 Which Beethoven Piano Concerto do you prefer - No.4 Op. 58 or No. 5 Op. 73 (Emperor)? And why?
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Offline le_poete_mourant

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Re: Beethoven Concerto No. 4 or No. 5?
Reply #1 on: July 19, 2015, 08:15:05 AM
You might as well ask a parent which child they prefer.  Although here you may have more success getting people to debate such an unanswerable question.
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Offline pytheamateur

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Re: Beethoven Concerto No. 4 or No. 5?
Reply #2 on: July 19, 2015, 10:37:51 AM
Quote from: yellowcat12345 on July 18, 2015, 07:22:18 AM
Which Beethoven Piano Concerto do you prefer - No.4 Op. 58 or No. 5 Op. 73 (Emperor)? And why?
I don't like the 5th.  The title puts me off: I believe in democracy and I'm a republican.  On the other hand 4 is an unlucky number in Chinese superstition: it sounds like "death".  The question it boils down to is a philosophical one: whether my belief in democracy as a universal guarantee of a better society trumps my nationalistic sentiments.
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