doogiewray (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} doogiewray) wrote,@ 2007-12-16 18:44:00 |
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Another Year ... Happy Birthday, Ludwig!
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Click on picture to hear just one of Beethoven's most beautiful pieces
(If you're on modem, you may want to skip this)
Lately, for some reason, I haven't been listening to much classical music. Instead, I've been grooving alot on the Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, the Stones (particularly Exile on Main St.) and Lynyrd Skynyrd. All of them are wonderful and make me feel good, driving down the road, singing along and grinnin' like a frog eating onions.
But, here it is, December 16th and I started my annual Beethoven marathon yesterday, listening to the first seventeen of his thirty-two piano sonatas, and today I've finally worked my way through his symphonies and am just now listening to his final ninth symphony. Tomorrow, I'll finish the piano sonatas and wrap it up with his Missa Solemnis.
Guess what? As great as Lynyrd Skynyrd is, none of that rock stuff comes close to Beethoven. Who'da thunk it, anyhow?
If I get his complete string quartets in the next year, my marathon will have to start a week or so earlier.
