One can better appreciate music, especially the works of one of the greatest musicians ever, if one has better understanding of the interpreted but not necessarily implied meaning of it. I know little of music but I don't want to keep it that way.
https://www.coursera.org/course/beethovensonatas
When he lays his hands on the Steinway, the instructor, Jonathan Biss, has the look of a man who has known peace. Not everyone is capable of completely understanding his lectures consisting of a fair bit of technical jargon, but the rest of the history and background on classical music is genuinely interesting.
Here's one of, what I consider to to be, Beethoven's most emotional piece of work, made tragic by this moment.
https://www.coursera.org/course/beethovensonatas
When he lays his hands on the Steinway, the instructor, Jonathan Biss, has the look of a man who has known peace. Not everyone is capable of completely understanding his lectures consisting of a fair bit of technical jargon, but the rest of the history and background on classical music is genuinely interesting.
Here's one of, what I consider to to be, Beethoven's most emotional piece of work, made tragic by this moment.
"Over time, his hearing loss became profound: there is a well-attested story that, at the end of the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, he had to be turned around to see the tumultuous applause of the audience; hearing nothing, he wept."
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