Yes. Absolutely gorgeous and creative concept. Composers like Mahler (1st symphony) took inspiration from that. Really creates this "order out of chaos" image, like something from the primeval birth of the world
I'm not a formally trained musician, but the beginning sounds to me like the strings tuning, which creates a sense of anticipation that something great is about to start.
Really looking forward to the next video. And to the analysis of the second movment. And the first half of the 4th movement. How he starts with an explosion of sound with the whole orchestra. Like he's bashes himself in the head to get some melody, and the other movents try to squeese in, like "try me, try me" until the double basses takes command, and says; "How about this little tune" 😄In fact, I have different stories in each movement running in my head when I listen to them.
As someone who has learned to play violin, the opening of the 1st movement also invokes violins being tuned, which does add to the "primal" nature of the piece. And yes, I do want a 2nd episode, and more subsequent episodes until the final note of the symphony, one of my favorite pieces ever.
Nice observation about the dotted rhythms of the Maestoso section of the Opus 111. C. Rosen wrote that the 1st movement of the Sonata is a "combination of fugue and sonata form" and that the Allegro con brio "starts with what is evidently a fugue theme". Thus the whole movement resembles a French overture.
I remember listening to this symphony for the first time. Music appeared, out of nothing. Like a big bang. Later I imagined stars forming. The second movement has wonderful parts, like distant memories. Later, we are almost an hour in, man appears in the universe (with the singers) now being able to steer the fate of the cosmos, reaching out to god. The piece ends in rejoicing, in the now.
Thank you Professor for another fascinating video! The reaching back of composers to baroque influences/styles reminds me of how Rock musicians so often refer back to and invoke the Blues and also how Rock itself emerged out the Blues by continually expanding its vocabulary.
And just not to forget: Beethoven is the Mozart of music! So I am eagerly waiting for the second theme (and your next +22 episodes about the 9th symphony! :) )
Loved it. Looking forward to the whole series. Analysing and presenting the entire 9th definitely won't be an easy task, but I'm certain you'll be able to pull it off.
Yes! More please! As an elderly novice, just learning to play "Fur Elise" but one who has loved the Nineth for decades, your analysis goes right over my head but is utterly thrilling - & somehow opens my mind in a mysterious & wonderful way. Thank you.
First I appreciate how you identified that style as Toccata, I knew it was provoking something in me when Beethoven gets into that "mood," now I know it is resonating with Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Second, 14:09 I would say in the first movement he is retesting the past...with the intent to rejecting it in the beginning of the 4th movement then reincorporating it in a much more sublime way with the fugue of the 4th movement
I really enjoyed this. I've always thought that even if the choral movement had not been included, the parts preceding it still would have been among the greatest music ever written.
I think the reason Beethoven plays with musical structure is, it only becomes structure if it's conventional. By choosing to adjust cliché, you make music less accessible, but more individual. Regulating this experiment, I think, is the soul of classical style. 'Late' style doesn't give a flip about listener expectations: it knows what works. Holds true for Rachmaninov, too. Nice work, Professor: thank you!
great video, Mathew is an very nice professor and personally this symphony is the one that made me realise that I wanted to be an orchestral conductor and love classical music, so it is very special to me. And about the "open primal 5th", that's a think that Mahler wanted to comunicate in his first Symphony "Titan", with the pianissimo intensity, the birth and growing from the nothingness.
The Tondichter! He knew the last wonder before the grave, he led captivity captive, and his courage and refusal to despair have saved countless numbers of those of us who have had to suffer.
Excellent video. I would love to see future parts of it. The 4th movement so often steals all the attention, so I love to see the rest of the work get the credit it deserves.
I love that cabinet!!! Probably would cost over 10 thousand to get something like that these days. Haven't even seen one like that in the U.S. You have an office furniture treasure there.
I recommend reading the so called Heiligenstadt Testament, witch is a letter, written 1802, from L. v. Beethoven to his brother Carl. The letter of a tormented soul, very moving.
Yes! Please do a deep dive on the entire work. I often felt the very beginning with the 5ths reminded me of Creation itself, open to all possibilities, then the thundering theme is the voice of God full of terrifying and towering judgement as the unfathomable awesomeness of being is created. We mere humans can only bow in humility. And I’m not even religious!
The combination of verbal explanation, illustration by playing Liszt's transcription, and annotated score is done so very well. Just watched the video for a second time, after listening to the orchestral version. There are elements that a non-professional like me would never fully get without this video, such as the introduction of D, the Neapolitan, and the reference to Handel. I'm very grateful, and I hope this video is going to be followed by many of its kind.
Could listen for hours just going into detail about symphonic works, especially Beethoven. Love that you go over history too! I feel that's integral to get a full picture of the music! 😊
Just a week ago, Australia’s ABC (the antipodean equivalent of the UK’s BBC) announced the results of a listener poll of the top 100 “feel good” works, spanning compositions from the baroque, classical and romantic eras, as well as opera, film scores, and some from popular and non-Western musical traditions. Beethoven’s 9th symphony was voted in first place. Is it a coincidence that Beethoven was born in 1770 - the same year that James Cook became the first European to set foot on the Eastern Coast of the Australian Continent?
if anyone is interested, you can get the full list by searching Google for “abc classic fm top 100 feel good”. The top 10 (in reverse order) were:: 10. Leo Delibes: Lakmé 9. George Frideric Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 8. Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op; 36 7. Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace 6. Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending 5. George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue 4. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor' 3. Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers 2. Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
It’s funny, I watched another video on Beethoven‘s 9th recently that discussed the “der ganzen Welt” part of the libretto while showing a globe with Australia front and center. My first thought was, “Did Beethoven know Australia existed?”
@@DeflatingAtheism The existence of the Australian continent (or “great Southern land”) - though not its exact size and shape - was certainly known in Europe before Cook’s voyage, since the Dutch discovered the West coast of Australia centuries earlier, and had even reached Tasmania (Van Diemen’s Land, as they called it.) But the real question is whether Beethoven’s education was sufficiently broad to cover world geography. We tend to assume that, because Beethoven was a musical genius, he was probably also well-read and well-informed in other fields of knowledge. But his formal education was negligible, and it is doubtful whether he ever read a book that was not a musical score, or an anthology of poetry which could be set to music.
Thank you so much, Professor, for this in-depth analysis with insights and information that will enhance my understanding and enjoyment of this extraordinary piece of art.
When he presented the Eroica, that was already the greatest symphony that had ever been composed. After that, only he could beat it. Since then, the Symphony has become a footnote to Beethoven.
He's the master! Horowitz thought them the best piano works of all (“I deeply regret never having played Liszt's arrangements of the Beethoven symphonies in public - these are the greatest works for the piano - tremendous works - every note of the symphonies is in the Liszt works.”) He would have had to be about 120 years old to get a decent recording of him. Sad that we don't have Busoni either. This recording by one of Liszt's pupils gives an indication possibly...a wonderful sound: czcams.com/video/JJpNC0js0u8/video.html
@@themusicprofessor I agree, his transcriptions are masterful, not just of Beethoven but Berlioz and Wagner, etc. I suppose the students do give an indication of how the maestro might've performed, but we are left all the poorer for not having Liszt and Chopin and so many others on record. And yet, what we have is the compositions at least. And therein is their immortality. I'm sure you've seen this but going to post for those who haven't czcams.com/video/pnSBQVRDbdw/video.html&ab_channel=DanieleDerelli
Thank you for taking a fresh look at the Ninth. Funny, but the beginning reminds me of the Matrix's Red Pill vs Blue Pill; the red pill (1st theme) and blue pill (2nd) being metaphorical terms representing a choice between the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling or life-changing truth ( taking the "red pill") or remaining in the contented experience of ordinary reality with the "blue pill" (the pleasure principle). I'd also like to hear how Beethoven transforms these themes, because so often we're preoccupied with ‘materials,’ i.e., chords, rhythms, instrumentation. These things matter, of course, but in the hierarchy of music, they are nowhere near the top. The most important thing, in my view, at least, is not the materials, it’s the transformation of those materials over time. It’s the story. That’s what listeners respond to. Where Beethoven exercises his individuality and produces a distinctive piece of music is in the trajectory of his materials: what happens. So could you cover a little of that, too, please?
The analysis reminded me of a passage of Adorno in which he says how Beethoven incorporated a triplet, mostly baroque motive in its late piano sonatas... Great video!
Thank you! Adorno does say a lot of interesting things about late Beethoven. He also says some very odd things (he describes the 9th symphony as essentially a middle period work which I cannot agree with!)
Very interesting analysis, thank you. I really would like to hear this series continue. My favourite part of the first movement is the beginning of the development where he starts to shift the key of the opening, just before the bassoon solo.
I wonder how vital undamaged sound hearing is to a musician's career? I'd say very much so. It determines how high up in the harmonic series they are able to operate on, creating those luscious tone colors & harmonies. Of course Beethoven was already a master musician when his began to fail.
I was seven or eight years old when I first listened to Beethoven, and I have never stopped listening; I am now slightly older than he ever was (like you, Prof!). And I am totally fascinated by this Beethoven episode around his 9th symphony. May I hereby ask, with dangerously maniacal eyes: Please. Do. Give us the rest! I mean it, sir!🎵
In case nobody has said it yet: your pronunciation of "Theater am Kärtnertor" was very good! Liszt was superb at arranging works for piano, I'm impressed every time. (and yes, a second part would be great!)
Thank you! Yes, I've mentioned in a comment below that Horowitz said, "“I deeply regret never having played Liszt's arrangements of the Beethoven symphonies in public - these are the greatest works for the piano - tremendous works - every note of the symphonies is in the Liszt works.”
@@themusicprofessor It‘s something funny I noticed while listening to the Lizst transcriptions… a piano transcription of an orchestral Beethoven sonata-allegro movement… doesn’t sound like a Beethoven piano sonata!
No, it really doesn't. I've never been convinced by the old argument that Beethoven's big piano sonatas (e.g. Hammerklavier) seem orchestral. Actually, I think they're profoundly pianistic. The miracle of Liszt's transcriptions is that he somehow turns orchestral music into absolutely convincing piano music.
such a great video! I attended a performance of the liszt transcription on the day of the anniversary, but of course it was impossible to catch the little moments like that "tritone substitution" you talked about here! the soap opera format is great, if it gives you the time to go into such detail like this. looking forward to more :)
Yes please continue. But.. please slow down the speed of your explenations. For me as a non acedemic music lover it is difficult to follow although I understand to listen to the music professor. Thanks for your great piece of work.
Very nice. Your enthusiasm, combined with depth of knowledge, makes an irresistible presentation. More, please! I was delighted that you spoke of the harmonic series, something many skilled musicians know nothing about. Do you have any experience with music tuned in Just Intonation?
First time I listened to the 9th, I didn't realize it even started - sounded like the musicians were still tuning their instruments.
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Yes. Absolutely gorgeous and creative concept. Composers like Mahler (1st symphony) took inspiration from that. Really creates this "order out of chaos" image, like something from the primeval birth of the world
Yes please a second video and also an analysis of his 7th symphony would be nice. Thank you for the wonderful analysis today.
Maybe we can hope of analysis of all of B.'s symphonies, little by little?
Sorry, I became greedy. Ignore my comment. My excuse is that I love this stuff so much.
Excellent. We eagerly await episode 2 of "The 9th", the greatest soap opera ever written.
OK. The 9th Symphony Soap Opera must continue...
Please please do the whole work, it's one of the most amazing pieces of music in Western history and it deserves a deep dive.
Thanks for doing this!
As much as I love Schubert and Mozart, Beethoven will always be my number 1.
"He did a lot of crazy stuff to break up expectations" - and he did well.
All of the best composers break up expectations.
This channel is arguably one of the best things CZcams enabled
Thank you!
Thank you for the insight into one of the greatest musical works of all time. Makes it even more awesome.
I'm not a formally trained musician, but the beginning sounds to me like the strings tuning, which creates a sense of anticipation that something great is about to start.
Exactly what I thought
Greatest piece of music written to date along with the late quartets. The 9th always makes me cry with it's sheer beauty.
Really looking forward to the next video. And to the analysis of the second movment. And the first half of the 4th movement. How he starts with an explosion of sound with the whole orchestra. Like he's bashes himself in the head to get some melody, and the other movents try to squeese in, like "try me, try me" until the double basses takes command, and says; "How about this little tune" 😄In fact, I have different stories in each movement running in my head when I listen to them.
All true. It's fascinating isn't it!?
As someone who has learned to play violin, the opening of the 1st movement also invokes violins being tuned, which does add to the "primal" nature of the piece. And yes, I do want a 2nd episode, and more subsequent episodes until the final note of the symphony, one of my favorite pieces ever.
Nice observation about the dotted rhythms of the Maestoso section of the Opus 111. C. Rosen wrote that the 1st movement of the Sonata is a "combination of fugue and sonata form" and that the Allegro con brio "starts with what is evidently a fugue theme". Thus the whole movement resembles a French overture.
Yes, that's right. Op 111 does the neo-Baroque thing a bit more strictly, but the two pieces are connected.
I remember listening to this symphony for the first time. Music appeared, out of nothing. Like a big bang. Later I imagined stars forming. The second movement has wonderful parts, like distant memories. Later, we are almost an hour in, man appears in the universe (with the singers) now being able to steer the fate of the cosmos, reaching out to god. The piece ends in rejoicing, in the now.
This is fantastic. Please do the subsequent movements.
This is just brilliant! Brilliant! Thank you! Can't wait for the next parts. Those fifths are chilling.
Thank you Professor for another fascinating video! The reaching back of composers to baroque influences/styles reminds me of how Rock musicians so often refer back to and invoke the Blues and also how Rock itself emerged out the Blues by continually expanding its vocabulary.
Yes, yes, yes, please do continue. Simply wonderful. & the sound was spot on,
And just not to forget: Beethoven is the Mozart of music! So I am eagerly waiting for the second theme (and your next +22 episodes about the 9th symphony! :) )
Thanks to Loki ❤❤
Greatest symphony ever written
Very well presented. Thank you, and I'm looking forward to the next 'episode'.
Please do the entire 9th! Love your presentation.
Thank you!
Loved it. Looking forward to the whole series. Analysing and presenting the entire 9th definitely won't be an easy task, but I'm certain you'll be able to pull it off.
Yes please part 2 would be great!
I look forward to the next episode (and more?).
Yes! More please! As an elderly novice, just learning to play "Fur Elise" but one who has loved the Nineth for decades, your analysis goes right over my head but is utterly thrilling - & somehow opens my mind in a mysterious & wonderful way. Thank you.
Please do a 2nd episode!
I always love listening to your insights (and the music, of course.)
Speaking of Liszt's Beethoven symphony transcriptions, Konstantin Scherbakov's performance of the entire cycle is worth checking out IMO.
Yes, please. More of your great analysis.
A second video would be excellent 👌🏼😀
First I appreciate how you identified that style as Toccata, I knew it was provoking something in me when Beethoven gets into that "mood," now I know it is resonating with Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Second, 14:09 I would say in the first movement he is retesting the past...with the intent to rejecting it in the beginning of the 4th movement then reincorporating it in a much more sublime way with the fugue of the 4th movement
Yes - that's a very interesting thought.
Bravo! I look forward to the sequel!
I would appreciate a full playlist of the 9th :)
More! More!
I really enjoyed this. I've always thought that even if the choral movement had not been included, the parts preceding it still would have been among the greatest music ever written.
I did not want this to end. Thanks, and to Loki, as well, waiting for his walkies.
Yes - sometimes he does get a bit bored, but walkies does arrive in the end!
I think the reason Beethoven plays with musical structure is, it only becomes structure if it's conventional. By choosing to adjust cliché, you make music less accessible, but more individual. Regulating this experiment, I think, is the soul of classical style. 'Late' style doesn't give a flip about listener expectations: it knows what works. Holds true for Rachmaninov, too. Nice work, Professor: thank you!
great video, Mathew is an very nice professor and personally this symphony is the one that made me realise that I wanted to be an orchestral conductor and love classical music, so it is very special to me.
And about the "open primal 5th", that's a think that Mahler wanted to comunicate in his first Symphony "Titan", with the pianissimo intensity, the birth and growing from the nothingness.
Yes indeed - Mahler 1 is an amazing opening isn't it!? If it's influenced by Beethoven, I'd say it's more like the opening of Beethoven 4...
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Would love to have another episode on the 9th! Ta´hank you very much indeed anyway.
The Tondichter! He knew the last wonder before the grave, he led captivity captive, and his courage and refusal to despair have saved countless numbers of those of us who have had to suffer.
Excellent video. I would love to see future parts of it. The 4th movement so often steals all the attention, so I love to see the rest of the work get the credit it deserves.
I'd like more of that! Yes, please.
Yes please make a second episode 🙏🏻
I would love a full series breakdown on it!
I love that cabinet!!! Probably would cost over 10 thousand to get something like that these days. Haven't even seen one like that in the U.S. You have an office furniture treasure there.
Thank you. It use to belong to my parents. I think it was originally an apothecary's cabinet.
I'm going to the 9th today, I've never listened to it live!
Enjoy!
YES!!! We need a deep dive on this entire piece. To just hear the backstory sent chills up my spine and the music sent chills towards my heart.
I recommend reading the so called Heiligenstadt Testament, witch is a letter, written 1802, from L. v. Beethoven to his brother Carl. The letter of a tormented soul, very moving.
Yes! Please do a deep dive on the entire work.
I often felt the very beginning with the 5ths reminded me of Creation itself, open to all possibilities, then the thundering theme is the voice of God full of terrifying and towering judgement as the unfathomable awesomeness of being is created. We mere humans can only bow in humility. And I’m not even religious!
Yes. Please continue. Fascinating
Well done. Thank you. Best wishes.
The combination of verbal explanation, illustration by playing Liszt's transcription, and annotated score is done so very well. Just watched the video for a second time, after listening to the orchestral version. There are elements that a non-professional like me would never fully get without this video, such as the introduction of D, the Neapolitan, and the reference to Handel. I'm very grateful, and I hope this video is going to be followed by many of its kind.
Thank you!
Great video! Please do a second episode!
so nice, thank you
More please!
The 9th can be called Genesis....Being mysterious is not the same as romantical... Thank you.
Please, sir. I want some more.
Very good. Thanks! Several revelations for me.
Fantastic! Please make more.
Thanks, it's a nice symphony
Could listen for hours just going into detail about symphonic works, especially Beethoven. Love that you go over history too! I feel that's integral to get a full picture of the music! 😊
Thank you!
Absolutely please for the love of god part 2
OK! It shall be done!
Lovely presentation! I'm looking forward to the next installment(s)!
Very much looking forward to the rest of this series! Your videos are my favorite part of the week.
Wow! Thank you!
Just a week ago, Australia’s ABC (the antipodean equivalent of the UK’s BBC) announced the results of a listener poll of the top 100 “feel good” works, spanning compositions from the baroque, classical and romantic eras, as well as opera, film scores, and some from popular and non-Western musical traditions. Beethoven’s 9th symphony was voted in first place. Is it a coincidence that Beethoven was born in 1770 - the same year that James Cook became the first European to set foot on the Eastern Coast of the Australian Continent?
Interesting coincidence!
if anyone is interested, you can get the full list by searching Google for “abc classic fm top 100 feel good”. The top 10 (in reverse order) were::
10. Leo Delibes: Lakmé
9. George Frideric Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
8. Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op; 36
7. Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
6. Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
5. George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
4. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 'Emperor'
3. Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
2. Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32
1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
It’s funny, I watched another video on Beethoven‘s 9th recently that discussed the “der ganzen Welt” part of the libretto while showing a globe with Australia front and center. My first thought was, “Did Beethoven know Australia existed?”
Beethoven was part of the enlightenment period which was optimistic, so were Bach, Mozart, Haydn.
@@DeflatingAtheism
The existence of the Australian continent (or “great Southern land”) - though not its exact size and shape - was certainly known in Europe before Cook’s voyage, since the Dutch discovered the West coast of Australia centuries earlier, and had even reached Tasmania (Van Diemen’s Land, as they called it.)
But the real question is whether Beethoven’s education was sufficiently broad to cover world geography. We tend to assume that, because Beethoven was a musical genius, he was probably also well-read and well-informed in other fields of knowledge. But his formal education was negligible, and it is doubtful whether he ever read a book that was not a musical score, or an anthology of poetry which could be set to music.
Yes please with a second! Love your videos!
Please keep going...
Thank you so much, Professor, for this in-depth analysis with insights and information that will enhance my understanding and enjoyment of this extraordinary piece of art.
Thank you!
best music professor ever
Wonderful insight.
Thank you. Fascinating and moving.
Of course we like it. It's Beethoven's 9th. What's not to like? ;)
When he presented the Eroica, that was already the greatest symphony that had ever been composed. After that, only he could beat it. Since then, the Symphony has become a footnote to Beethoven.
Well - perhaps a bit more than a footnote! It has got some of his greatest music in it. (czcams.com/video/uztVKbVwmx4/video.htmlsi=Wf0IJPszEYcu1vmj)
@@themusicprofessor ☺
Thanks, I do love Liszt's transcriptions. A pity we don't have recordings of this reputed greatest of all piano virtuosos.
He's the master! Horowitz thought them the best piano works of all (“I deeply regret never having played Liszt's arrangements of the Beethoven symphonies in public - these are the greatest works for the piano - tremendous works - every note of the symphonies is in the Liszt works.”) He would have had to be about 120 years old to get a decent recording of him. Sad that we don't have Busoni either. This recording by one of Liszt's pupils gives an indication possibly...a wonderful sound: czcams.com/video/JJpNC0js0u8/video.html
@@themusicprofessor I agree, his transcriptions are masterful, not just of Beethoven but Berlioz and Wagner, etc. I suppose the students do give an indication of how the maestro might've performed, but we are left all the poorer for not having Liszt and Chopin and so many others on record. And yet, what we have is the compositions at least. And therein is their immortality. I'm sure you've seen this but going to post for those who haven't czcams.com/video/pnSBQVRDbdw/video.html&ab_channel=DanieleDerelli
perfect pronunciation!
Yes please continue - this is fascinating
Great presentation and analysis - thanks to your very active assistant;-)
Looking forward to the next part!
I would watch a full series just of the 9th, great content!
Thank you for taking a fresh look at the Ninth.
Funny, but the beginning reminds me of the Matrix's Red Pill vs Blue Pill; the red pill (1st theme) and blue pill (2nd) being metaphorical terms representing a choice between the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling or life-changing truth ( taking the "red pill") or remaining in the contented experience of ordinary reality with the "blue pill" (the pleasure principle).
I'd also like to hear how Beethoven transforms these themes, because so often we're preoccupied with ‘materials,’ i.e., chords, rhythms, instrumentation. These things matter, of course, but in the hierarchy of music, they are nowhere near the top.
The most important thing, in my view, at least, is not the materials, it’s the transformation of those materials over time. It’s the story. That’s what listeners respond to. Where Beethoven exercises his individuality and produces a distinctive piece of music is in the trajectory of his materials: what happens. So could you cover a little of that, too, please?
Interesting thought!
The analysis reminded me of a passage of Adorno in which he says how Beethoven incorporated a triplet, mostly baroque motive in its late piano sonatas... Great video!
Thank you! Adorno does say a lot of interesting things about late Beethoven. He also says some very odd things (he describes the 9th symphony as essentially a middle period work which I cannot agree with!)
Thanks!
Thanks so much!
Very interesting analysis, thank you. I really would like to hear this series continue. My favourite part of the first movement is the beginning of the development where he starts to shift the key of the opening, just before the bassoon solo.
Yes! That's an inspired passage - with those magical shifts of harmony and the pp off-beat timps
I wonder how vital undamaged sound hearing is to a musician's career? I'd say very much so. It determines how high up in the harmonic series they are able to operate on, creating those luscious tone colors & harmonies. Of course Beethoven was already a master musician when his began to fail.
What I want to know is how Beethoven managed to coach his nephew’s piano practice with failing hearing.
I was seven or eight years old when I first listened to Beethoven, and I have never stopped listening; I am now slightly older than he ever was (like you, Prof!). And I am totally fascinated by this Beethoven episode around his 9th symphony.
May I hereby ask, with dangerously maniacal eyes: Please. Do. Give us the rest! I mean it, sir!🎵
Looking forward to part 2!
I would love a second episode :)))
In case nobody has said it yet: your pronunciation of "Theater am Kärtnertor" was very good!
Liszt was superb at arranging works for piano, I'm impressed every time.
(and yes, a second part would be great!)
Thank you! Yes, I've mentioned in a comment below that Horowitz said, "“I deeply regret never having played Liszt's arrangements of the Beethoven symphonies in public - these are the greatest works for the piano - tremendous works - every note of the symphonies is in the Liszt works.”
@@themusicprofessor It‘s something funny I noticed while listening to the Lizst transcriptions… a piano transcription of an orchestral Beethoven sonata-allegro movement… doesn’t sound like a Beethoven piano sonata!
No, it really doesn't. I've never been convinced by the old argument that Beethoven's big piano sonatas (e.g. Hammerklavier) seem orchestral. Actually, I think they're profoundly pianistic. The miracle of Liszt's transcriptions is that he somehow turns orchestral music into absolutely convincing piano music.
such a great video! I attended a performance of the liszt transcription on the day of the anniversary, but of course it was impossible to catch the little moments like that "tritone substitution" you talked about here! the soap opera format is great, if it gives you the time to go into such detail like this. looking forward to more :)
Very good! Encore!
Brilliant presentation. Hope you continue with this!
Awesome! Second part, please.
This video was amazing, Counting the days until the next one! 🙏👍
To paraphrase Oliver Twist "Please, sir, may I have some more?"
That was a great analysis sir.
please do another episode. this is amazing!
OK - I will eventually. The trouble is, although people enjoyed it, it hasn't been one of the more popular episodes on the channel...
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Yes, we want it!
Yes please continue. But.. please slow down the speed of your explenations. For me as a non acedemic music lover it is difficult to follow although I understand to listen to the music professor. Thanks for your great piece of work.
Thank you. Sometimes the speed is regulated by the fact that I try to fit everything into about 20 minutes which isn't always easy!
Very nice. Your enthusiasm, combined with depth of knowledge, makes an irresistible presentation. More, please!
I was delighted that you spoke of the harmonic series, something many skilled musicians know nothing about. Do you have any experience with music tuned in Just Intonation?
I do, and I'm fascinated by these issues as a composer, although I don't consider myself in any way an expert on intonation.
Continue, please!!!!!
Keep going! This is amazing:O