Showing posts with label Ludwig van Beethoven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ludwig van Beethoven. Show all posts

Monday, January 20, 2014

moonlight sonata




Ludwig Van Beethoven actually intended for his pieces to be played a lot faster but no orchestra could manage it so they had to slow it down. Here is moonlight sonata 3rd movement played in the original intended tempo. Simply amazing.





~ Valentina Lisitsa

Saturday, March 3, 2012

moonlight sonata








Wilhelm Kempff plays Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata mvt. 1
published on this date in 1802

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

they bless me






I spend all my morning with the muses;  
- and they bless me also in my walks.

Compelled to contemplate a lasting malady, born with an ardent and lively temperament, susceptible to the diversions of society, I was obliged at an early date to isolate myself and live a life of solitude....For me there can be no recreation in human society, refined conversation, mutual exchange of thoughts and feelings; only so far as necessity compels may I give myself to society,—I must live like an exile. 




~ from the Ludwig van Beethoven journals
with thanks to Roderick Maclver


portrait by 
Joseph Karl Stieler