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...Bolshevik dictator, made Harry Truman the chairman of their formal meetings. One evening he gave a state dinner for the other two, and afterwards he sat at a piano and played a minuet in G for them. One German, and one only, was in the room: Ludwig van Beethoven, who hated Prussianism and wrote the music...
...combination on graph paper to make a blueprint that looks promising. The blueprint, transcribed into musical notation, is the piece of music the "engineer" set out to construct. Shaw promised that the Schillinger system could provide 10,000 rhythmic combinations from the 19 basic rhythms used by Mozart and Beethoven...
...from Governor Wallgren that his own suit was the older (it was bought in 1939). He rose early to stroll on the wide lawns, sometimes played the piano before breakfast. Going to the Capitol, he sat down at an organ under the lofty, music-amplifying dome, launched into Beethoven's Minuet in G and the Blackhawk Waltz. Then, with the Governor and Press Secretary Charlie Ross, he sang Peggy O'Neil and Melancholy Baby...
Even on an ancient sound track, Beethoven's music is magnificent, but it is poorly used. Concentrating on the symphonies, the French producers use parts of the fifth as a constant theme, and forget completely the masterful concertos, chamber, and vocal works, as well as other of the symphonies...
With a tremendous subject to work on, "The Life and Loves of Beethoven" could be a great deal better. Although it achieves full realization of the horror of a great composer going deaf, its over-done dramatics of a death scream, and conflicts d'amour cause what could be a film classic to fall for short of its objective...