The English poet five-year-old poem is still read today. Beethoven at the age of eight performed his own original compositions. Blaise Pascal's first proof was written in chalk.
in some way or other. Beethoven was curious because, once he went deaf-- I've always wondered this. Once he went deaf, was he able to then self-edit?
Because suddenly when it evolves into public form, we see it in a very different context. Beethoven as a composer never had that ability. He would go into the theatre.
So it takes a lifetime to understand that. Beethoven no longer had the ability to go into a theater in a concert hall, sit and listen, and go, you know, that doesn't sound so good.
Ta-ta-ta-ta! God is coming to get me. Beethoven-- it was obviously the noise that was in his spirit that had to come out in that way.
You mentioned Brahms. He owned the original manuscript, annotated all sorts of things. Beethoven hand-copied all six of these quartet parts himself, arranged one for string orchestra before he decided to challenge the genre and write his Opus 18. Mozart, of course, was a close friend and passionate follower of Haydn, and knew these quartets intimately before writing his own.
I've also done Spiderman Beethoven I have never seen Beethoven, so I'm not very sure This is the Beethoven within my fantasy This is another Beethoven
--an unfair question? I have so many favorites. Beethoven is a favorite. But I don't want to hear about him.
the issue um um first thing is this idea of the the Lan Creator the you know the Beethoven type singular genius this is an idea that's I think it's in Decline now I don't think a lot of people who do creative work necessarily think like this anymore you know and as we get more and more networked I think it's it's becoming increasingly obvious that that
became rather portly but as the years progressed 1914 1516 and as Beethoven have been um have been such fun such fun he was so
Because men control the industry, so no matter-- I bet you there's misogyny even in fucking like Beethoven's time. Because they probably were like, no. You're a woman. You can't play the flute.
They did nothing about it. So Beethoven's Sonata X dot, dot, dot, dot, dot appeared in two different code settings.
But the music has its components in which I can deliver the message to you. [MUSIC - BEETHOVEN, "PIANO SONATA NO.
I begin the "Beethoven" show, which begins very derelictly with Beethoven's very first composition. [MUSIC - BEETHOVEN, "9 VARIATIONS IN C MINOR"] Imagine, he was 11-years-old. And even then, he had a sense of hope.
There's something wonderfully ugly about it. And Beethoven started breaking those rules. And of course, his teacher, Haydn, couldn't stand the fact that Beethoven was actually making ugly music.
But quite, frankly nobody will really care. But Beethoven-- think of the person who has changed technology today, whoever that one person is, suddenly being impeded from being able to do that, whatever it is. The brain stops functioning, whatever it is.
One, the inscription could have been copied down wrong. Or Beethoven's hand was so messy that the guy who copied it down got the name wrong. Nobody knows. But this piece, "Fur Elise," that every student plays, that every young person plays when you get introduced to the piano, that very piece is Beethoven Lore.
Ta-ta-ta-ta! God is coming to get me. And Beethoven said, absolutely not.
which was difficult also toward the end of Beethoven's life with hearing issues. But Beethoven, at the end of his life, did ask his assistant to bring in some of the scores of this young gentleman's music, and was really, really blown away by it.
But it's work. It's like I would work and it would spill over. And Beethoven writes 20 of them at the end of one of those.
I mean -- I. Daniel: Beethoven. Dead.
This one was especially large. We named her Big Beetha because she was one of the largest swarms that we caught this season. We were pretty proud.
And sometimes I worry that we've lost sense of feeling, especially the way the world is going now, the way people feel to talk to each other. I was performing the Beethoven in San Diego, three, four weeks ago, whatever it was.
They brought us Beethoven.
like a Beethoven did or a John Stuart Mill where their parents are drilling them in Latin and Greek and trying to turn them into prodigies,
John was one of them. I begin the "Beethoven" show, which begins very derelictly with Beethoven's very first composition. Imagine, he was 11-years-old.
a man who was completely deaf, who changed the entire world of music. Up until Beethoven's time, certainly, when he started to go deaf, music was essentially a descriptive form. There were rules. What you never did was fifths in parallels.
And of course, his teacher, Haydn, couldn't stand the fact that Beethoven was actually making ugly music. But while Beethoven was busy making ugly music, taking the first chord of the "C Minor Pathetique Sonata"-- Listen to that. It doesn't sound like anything except ugly, doesn't it?
Or any one of you who are developing these incredible things today-- that suddenly, the one gift that you have, the one thing that you have above everybody else-- in Beethoven's case, perfect hearing and perfect sense of invention-- suddenly disappears on you. And you have enough faculty left to understand that that has disappeared.
Ta-ta-ta-ta! God is coming to get me. And that's what Beethoven did.
Ta-ta-ta-ta! God is coming to get me. When you're portraying Beethoven as-- well, reflecting back in his youth, it's kind of an odd juxtaposition.
Ta-ta-ta-ta! God is coming to get me. In the case of "Beethoven," the reason it's in a cemetery is because the story actually took place there.
Ta-ta-ta-ta! God is coming to get me. They actually disinterred Beethoven's bones in 1863, because someone on the Music Society Committee in Vienna had this idea that they needed to put his remains in a metal
Beethoven I have never seen Beethoven, so I'm not very sure This is the Beethoven within my fantasy This is another Beethoven Rassun Gorerai I've actually done a lot This is Star Wars at the year-end party We didn't have much budget, I am the one in the gold
records music by the Beethovens of today, like some of the people you see here.
His name is Beethoven.
And this is Beethoven again.
It's interesting that Schubert and Beethoven were alive, working quite hard at the same time, at the end of both of their lives. And Schubert and Beethoven, as far as we know, never met. They lived within blocks of one another.
to murder Beethoven for a living, or maybe I'm gonna play at Nordstrom, but I'm not gonna play Carnegie Hall."
skilled I think Beethoven was a uh uh probably a very difficult man very
Nathaniel: Lemony: That will lead to a lifetime addiction to classical music. For me it was Beethoven's third symphony, the Eroica, that kind of broke it wide open. You know, I couldn't stop listening to it.
was rehearsing Beethoven's heroa Symphony with the Youth Orchestra and you may remember that right away at the
Here was a man who essentially pushed music so far that he basically did what everybody did, but only after Bach had did it before him. If you think of this with Beethoven, it's really just a few pounding notes. He claimed to have heard this because he was walking through the streets of Vienna, he got tired, and he sat down at the foot of a tree,
And sometimes I worry that we've lost sense of feeling, especially the way the world is going now, the way people feel to talk to each other. nobody had ever composed like this of Beethoven, in all of music.
Never. And I'll show you why. But this is a passage from Beethoven's Piano Sonata Number 23. It's in the third movement.
To be more specific break my own record. It's good to know that Beethoven broke Irving Berlin's record actually. I'm just a vehicle for doing this stuff and telling stories.
Simple and elegant and beautiful-- so now the floor gets to be open to questions. And you get to ask anything about Beethoven, about what it is I do, anything you want to know. But you must ask, in order to make this fun and work.
Ta-ta-ta-ta! God is coming to get me. Some of the greatest art-- the Beethovens, the Chopins, the Gershwins-- they were all highly conscious that their art had to be sold, that they need to make a living.
Ta-ta-ta-ta! God is coming to get me. That was the thing about Beethoven.
They forget about the music of Beethoven.