Because, before a Beethoven symphony, Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' or Wagner's ''Tristan and Isolde, '' all human beings are equal.
These wines appeal to those who prefer the delicate tones of a string quartet to the bombast of a Beethoven symphony.
Buchbinder's stop at our studio was just a few hours before his performance of a Beethoven Piano Concerto at Symphony Hall with the Dresden Staatskapelle.
At 11, thanks to the generosity of a relative, he was sent to Christ's Hospital school, where he learned to play the clarinet, and it was there, after hearing a recording of a Beethoven symphony, that he decided he wanted to become a conductor.
Throw in the illegible handwriting of, say, a Beethoven, or a composer who makes changes on routinely tossed publisher's proofs but neglects to enter them on the original manuscript, as well as the inevitable errors endemic to the typesetting and printing process itself, and the vagaries of the score-publishing process become manifest.
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And it also has a little Liberace, a little Beethoven, a little Ray Charles.
The alarm on the phone wakes me up by playing a downloaded Beethoven tune.
The 80-page draft score for the Grosse Fugue for Piano-Four Hands, considered a milestone in Beethoven's career, is being displayed briefly at the Palmer Theological Seminary, where a librarian came across it in July.
The Opus 110 Sonata reflects a terrible illness Beethoven endured, and his gratitude at recovering.
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In 1895, he was hauled to a Prospect Park lakeside, joining a bust of Beethoven.
It tells the story of a wigmaker who tries to design a wig for Beethoven.
But for a full dose of Beethoven Symphonies, Haydn String Quartets, or Bach Cantata streaming it is quite practical.
The 2013-14 seasons starts in September with a new production of Beethoven's Fidelio masterminded by the Spanish director Calixto Bieito.
He saw Beethoven as a giant who had shown what it was still possible to do with basic structures such as sonata form.
He has more time for reading, he notes philosophically, and for music Bach, Beethoven, a new-born interest in Mahler and, occasionally, some violin practice.
Recently scholars have shown increased boldness in turning posthumous fragments into, for instance, performable tenth symphonies by Schubert and Beethoven and a seventh by Tchaikovsky.
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Dudamel kicked off his tenure with the L.A. Phil Saturday night with a free performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 before an audience of nearly 18, 000 at the Hollywood Bowl.
The piece is something of a rollercoaster ride: Beethoven takes four voices, fully engaged and throbbing at high speeds, and drives them to the edge of a cliff before stopping them on a dime to listen to the vastness of silence.
One particular demo that we saw involved the swarm bots playing a projected piano of sorts to perform a short snippet of Beethoven's "Fur Elise" -- internal cameras, special "hats" and cameras mounted around the room lend a hand in carrying out the assigned duties.
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There are a series of variations, and in the last one Beethoven takes the theme from a quarter note pulsation through every diminution until it becomes mere vibration.
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The opening trumpet fanfare consists of a similar rhythmic theme, as in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony: It shifts from repose to overt rage in a matter of seconds.
But the jazz melodies of Billie Holiday and the lush symphonies of Beethoven were like a visceral experience for me.
To some critics, Brahms's right to be mentioned in the same breath as Bach and Beethoven was less a matter of musical worth than an accident of alliteration.
The attractions will include Beethoven being played in a spaceship and Leonardo da Vinci's drawings being combined with modern technology.
And it is startling to see the power he invokes in Beethoven transform itself into a kind of flexible energy that gives the Johann Strauss Jr. arrangement its charm.
Carmina Burana ranks up there with Beethoven's Fifth as a perennial favorite among concert-goers.
Beethoven establishes the key, presents a main theme and even offers a development section all within the first seven seconds.
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It is not wild-eyed to view South-East Asia as a last frontier, with a lot of fresh ears waiting to hear Beethoven.
Located in the hunt country of Virginia, about an hour from Washington, the 61-acre property, named "Fidelio" after Beethoven's opera, has a 12, 000-square-foot neoclassical villa with six bedrooms, five baths and two half-baths.
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