Word: beethoven
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...Great Britain despite many love affairs and several illegitimate children. As his son almost boastfully put it: "He was probably the greatest natural Don Juan in the history of British politics. To portray his life without taking into account this side of his personality is like failing to depict Beethoven's handicap of, deafness during the composition of his greatest works...
...post-romantic composer, which provides a beneficial point of departures but constantly lead to distortions. The traditional image of this period, which corresponded almost exactly wit his lifetime (1860-1911), is of a lavishly talented collection of artists, aesthetically stranded in the shadows of their majestic predecessors-especially Beethoven and Wagner-struggling miserably with their grandiose inheritance but succeeding only in repeating the great men's first thoughts, and eventually making a cult of lamentation out of their own shortcomings. Thomas Mann described this period of apparent artistic desperation and extravagance as the miserable satyr play of a smaller time...
Albert Schweitzer, who almost single-handedly revived interest in Bach during the first decade of this century, happily list the few people who accepted and appreciated Bach's genius: Mendelssohn, Goethe, Schumann, Beethoven, Wanger, Liszt. Once the common opinion of only the greatest artists of the nineteenth century, that opinion is now generally accepted. Today we learn harmony from Bach's chorales and even Time Magazine has called him "The Fifth Apostle...
...Herbert von Karajan, Karl Miinchinger and others, will be in residence at this spa 17 miles north of Marseille. A wide spectrum of traditional and 20th century repertory will be offered in symphonic and chamber music programs. Also on the schedule is a series of musical films, including Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Von Karajan, A Homage to Edgar Varèse, and a feature on avant-garde Composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Olivier Messiaen...
...will also be productions of some rarely heard operas. Emilio de' Cavalieri's The Representation of Body and Soul (1600), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona (1733), and Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne spell Von Karajan's controversial production of Don Giovanni, and Beethoven's Fidelio under Karl Böhm's baton. The classics-heavy on Mozart, of course-will be given their due by the Vienna Philharmonic...