Posted by ...dog...
he first performed in public in seventeen ninety-five
the pathetique came soon after, and it belongs to 99,
but then in that bleak, dark year - eighteen hundred and two
his will to live is evidenced by the heroic constant tone,
and listen to the very first movement of number five
fidelio', failed at first and so it was twice revised
in 1812, famously, he wrote a passionate love-note
in his powerful and expansive middle-period hed compose
the years after 1812 were cold and barren, sadly
yet he came out of these trials to write some of his most complete:
and then there is the choral!
number 9 in minor d
in 1827 beethoven died and it is said
and still
we remain the darkness that his light is played upon
woof
on 4/11/2003, 4:52 pm
196.22.189.117
the genius beethoven, was born long ago in bonn
and if musics had a master, then ludwig was the one
one wonders what his father, johann, thought about his son
the greatest music writer we shall know.
and from that early period many trios still survive
as a pianist he had fire and verve
he brought the world alive
his technique alone was known to stop the show.
and the moonlight (in eighteen-oh-one), came out around this time
these were innovate works and, like his symphonies, sublime
many wondered: would his output ever slow?
beethovens hearing faltered (and it wouldnt be cured too)
and he thought that it was over
but the opposite was true!
though impaired, his mighty genius would grow.
found in his third (the eroica how his repertoire had grown!)
listen close and you can hear how genius sounds when its full blown!
for beethoven, being deaf was not a blow.
c-minor
sombre
fatal
clearly sad to be alive
but by the c-major finale
why everything revives!
and its there too in his great fidelio.
by beethoven and his librettists and they successfully devised
an opera for audiences many of which comprised
of those who liked a classic, bold hero.
to his 'eternally beloved' (whose name he never wrote)
but the letter wasnt sent
for reasons he would never quote
there are certain things we are not meant to know
the glorious pastoral symphony rustic nature, start to close
and the seventh, eighth
and the violin and emperor concertos
as well as the appassionata, as you know.
it seems he was depressed and that his hearing faded badly
and the failure of his marriage hopes to his beloved whom he loved madly
conspired to slow and stem his steady flow.
seven piano sonatas - the hammerklavier so replete
with force
its harsh, rebarbative fugue the darkly dynamic beat
such highs from one so spiritually low!
the finale chorus and solo which exemplifies, for me,
musics soothing powers for ode to joy, (surely you will agree?)
ignites the darkest soul and makes it glow.
10,000 made the funeral
for now the genius was dead!
he had become a public figure, a german hero born and bred
he was unique
and they stood silent, row on row.
and every time he lifts us to the heavens and beyond
we know beethoven isnt dead
for in his music he lives on
beethoven
absolutely
the maestro!
dog
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