Thursday 5 September 2013

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

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.

"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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