The A-Z Beethoven Quiz (rules of the game)

[Michael]

Voss, Johann Heinrich. Translated the "Odyssey" and "Iliad" into German and two passages from these works were copied into Beethoven's Tagebuch.

[Megan]

elsh Songs, Waken Lords and Ladies gay.

[Michael]

You must be Welsh!
(You'll also noticed I haven't posted an X.)

[PDG]

X = 'Xanadu', a song written by Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra fame, whose other compositions include 'Standin' In The Rain' (from the 'Out Of The Blue' album - 1977) which pastiches the Storm movement of the Pastoral Symphony.

Btw, his song, Xanadu, was a UK no.1 hit for Olivia Newton-John, in 1980.

[Megan]

No Mike, I am thoroughbred Scottish!

I was going to suggest that we skip the XYZ, but PDG stuck one in.

[Megan]

YE
shepherds of this pleasant vale


Scottish Songs. WoO 156

[PDG]

Zzzzz... Beethoven's often heard utterance while asleep, even when no one else was there (composing while dreaming - imagine the activity of a brain like Beethoven's while asleep...). Infinity multiplied by infinity = well, infinity, i guess, for who am I, etc...

[PDG]

I was going to suggest that we skip the XYZ, but PDG stuck one in.

I Stuck One In?! Well, Madam!!...<harumph!>....

[Michael]

PDG, you just about scraped in with the X but your Z is a total disgrace!
Maybe in round 24 ...........

[Megan]

Round.........?



Auld Lang Syne WoO156.


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[Enrique]

Bursy, Dr. Karl von. The Letters of Beethoven, Emily Anderson.

[Quijote]

YE
shepherds of this pleasant vale

Scottish Songs. WoO 156

Sorry Meegs, already done in Post #540!

[Quijote]

Well done for the XYZ (even though the "Z" was truly appalling, the poster should be shot ...).

[Quijote]

A-Z Beethoven Quiz Round 12

C = Counterpoint, which LvB studied from time to time.

[Megan]

De Roda Sketchbook .

http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/si...eter=&_seite=1


Beethoven used the De Roda sketchbook shown here (named after the Spanish collector Cecilio de Roda, to whom it belonged for many years) in summer 1825. He obviously did not buy it as a new book from a music shop but assembled it himself, using remnants of pieces of music paper or empty pages which he removed from other manuscripts. No fewer than 13 different types of paper can be identified in the sketchbook, none of which is represented by more than five leaves. The papers date back to 1808, many of them had clearly been written on in several places before they were bound. On leaf 4v (image 9) there is, for instance an entry in the hand of the copyist Ferdinand Wolanek. Beethoven had also prepared several leaves for an orchestral score, using a ruler to divide the pages into three great measures which he could further subdivide by hand as necessary. This can be clearly seen on leaf 5 (images 10 and 11). The bar lines have been drawn in ink (on leaf 5r there is also an accompanying musical entry in the upper stave), the sketches in pencil do not however concern themselves with the prepared bars. Beethoven did not use the book exclusively for sketching musical ideas. On leaves 23r to 24r (images 46, 47 and 48) he drew up a letter to the Russian Prince Galitzin, concerning the String Quartet op. 127, which the Prince had commissioned him to write. Beethoven later dedicated this as well as opp. 130 and 132 to the Prince.

The De Roda Sketchbook has survived almost in its entirety. During Beethoven's lifetime it contained 42 leaves, 40 of which have survived. Only the outer cover is presumed to be missing. At the auction of Beethoven's estate in November 1827 it was acquired by the Viennese music dealer and publisher Domenico Artaria. Artaria was one of the main buyers at the auction. In the 1840s his employee Anton Gräffer made a list of all the Beethoven autograph scores in the possession of Artaria Publishers. This sketchbook was described in the list as "Notirungsbuch G". The call number "G" can also be seen in the top right-hand corner of the De Roda Sketchbook (image 2). Even at this time the original cover had probably been turned to the back so that the current page 1 was at the top. The original cover might even have been missing at this time, as Artaria gave the sketchbook a new cover, giving it a certificate of authenticity on the front.