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    Originally posted by Megan View Post
    We should be on La tiranna, WoO 125
    We are! And here it is ...

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      L = Eduard Baron von Lannoy. Another DV contributor. I'm beginning to bore even myself with these DV fellows.

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        Originally posted by Quijote View Post
        L = Eduard Baron von Lannoy. Another DV contributor. I'm beginning to bore even myself with these DV fellows.
        But I just did La tiranna,
        ‘Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.’

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          Originally posted by Megan View Post
          We should be on La tiranna, WoO 125
          Oooh, dodgy one that is. "La" is the definite article. Ah, what the hell, why not, it's just a game. OK, I hereby reserve my "L" for Round 81.
          M is for ...

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            Musical Quips in Letters. WoO 205
            ‘Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.’

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              Originally posted by Megan View Post
              Michael.

              Quijote gave us an H
              Oops! You are dead right!
              I meant to give an L! I don't even know my bloody alphabet! And I swear I wasn't even drinking!
              Sorry - don't know where I am now. With my luck I'll be landed with the X!
              Last edited by Michael; 09-27-2012, 09:06 PM.

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                N = Neapolitan 6th. A harmonic device used by many Viennese composers. An example where LvB uses it is in the Moonlight, 1st movement, bar 50.
                [Peter will check and alert you if I'm pulling the wool over your eyes !]

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                  O das ich dir vom stillen Auge. WoO 140
                  ‘Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.’

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                    Piringer, Ferdinand. (Who? I know, but times are getting tough, folks.)
                    Viennese official and musician who became a friend of B around 1821 and made many entries in the Conversation Books.

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                      Quiet: Something that the last movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony is NOT!

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                        R = Reger, Josef. B's Lawyer around 1813

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                          "Sehnsucht" WoO 146. Song by Beethoven (who else?)

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                            Joke Canon, Ta ta ta, lieber Mälzel' WoO 162 (canon a4)



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                            Last edited by Megan; 09-29-2012, 04:14 AM.
                            ‘Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.’

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                              U = Ludwig Ueberfeldt, "Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) : The History of his Contribution to Beethoven Biography", Nineteenth-Century Music 7 (1984).

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                                Varena, Joseph von. Musician who met Beethoven in Teplitz in 1811.

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