'Lost' Beethoven hymn unearthed

[Megan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20070588

[Michael]

Interesting, as long as they don't beef it up into an hour-long symphony.
It appears to be little more than a minor arrangement of an existing work.

(Minor in the sense of lesser - not key - which is modal?)






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[Megan]

I actually just heard the hymn sung by a choir on BBC radio 3, just before the 6 o'clock news. I thought that the choir version didn't sound at all like a Beethoven composition, but the piano version did.

The hymn is set to the Pange Lingua, written by St. Thomas Aquinas.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20081261

[Enrique]

[...] (Minor in the sense of lesser - not key - which is modal?)

Good, Michael. You are showing yourself as a man not afraid of theoretical things. By the way, the mode can be minor or major, the key, C, B flat, F, et cetera. There are other modes too, mostly used in Medieval and Ancient times. In Brahms' 4th symphony, he uses one of these in the second movement.

[Quijote]

Interesting, as long as they don't beef it up into an hour-long symphony.

Ah, Baz Coopers "Beethoven's 11th", I can see it now ...

[Peter]

Ah, Baz Coopers "Beethoven's 11th", I can see it now ...

No, I lay money on it turning into a Mass or possibly the Requiem that Beethoven was known to be contemplating?! Every composer needs a Requiem!