What are you listening to now?

[AeolianHarp]

You're about to embark on a wonderful journey. I agree with Michael that it is his most enigmatic quartet of the late five.

I listened to it whilst cooking supper- hmmmm it is quite enigmatic yes.

As for your question, I'm going to steal from good ol' Ludwig; "Each in its own way."

When did he say that? Was it in regards to this work? I have a feeling this work was highly important to him.

[hal9000]

Holz recalls in 1824:

During the the time when he was composing the three quartets commissioned by Prince Galitzin, Opus 127, Opus 130, Opus 132, such a wealth of new quartet ideas streamed forth from Beethoven's inexhaustible imagination that he felt almost involuntarily compelled to write the C# minor and F major quartets. "My dear friend, I have just had another new idea," he used to say, in a joking manner and with shining eyes when we would go out for a walk; and he wrote down some notes in a little pocket sketchbook. "But that belongs to the quartet after the next one [Opus 131], since the next one [Opus 130] already has too many movements."...When he had finished the Bb major quartet [Opus 130] I said that I thought it the best of the three. To which he replied "Each in its own way! Art demands of us that we don't stand still" (he used to speak this way, in an imperial style). "You will find here a new kind of voice-leading, and, as to imagination, it will, God willing, be less lacking than ever before!" Later he said that he thought the C# minor quartet his greatest. On the score he sent to Schott he wrote, ironically, "Pilfered together from various odds and ends."

[AeolianHarp]

Holz recalls in 1824:

[I]During the the time when he was composing the three quartets commissioned by Prince Galitzin, Opus 127, Opus 130, Opus 132, such a wealth of new quartet ideas streamed forth from Beethoven's inexhaustible imagination that he felt almost involuntarily compelled to write the C# minor and F major quartets.

Wow..what an imagination too!

"My dear friend, I have just had another new idea," he used to say, in a joking manner and with shining eyes when we would go out for a walk; and he wrote down some notes in a little pocket sketchbook.

I can just imagine him doing and saying that!

"But that belongs to the quartet after the next one [Opus 131], since the next one [Opus 130] already has too many movements."...

Wow, he just knew what belonged to what!

When he had finished the Bb major quartet [Opus 130] I said that I thought it the best of the three. To which he replied "Each in its own way! Art demands of us that we don't stand still" (he used to speak this way, in an imperial style).

How splendid.

"You will find here a new kind of voice-leading, and, as to imagination, it will, God willing, be less lacking than ever before!"

Lacking?! He could be so humble...

Later he said that he thought the C# minor quartet his greatest. On the score he sent to Schott he wrote, ironically, "Pilfered together from various odds and ends."

Odds and ends..!!! Imagine having "odds and ends" of such magnitude!

Thanks for this!

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Moross: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Rosetti: Symphony in F

[Megan]

Schubert - 4 Impromptus, D. 899 / Op. 90 (Maria João Pires)

[Rocco]

Beethoven Missa Solemnis in D major, Op 123

[AeolianHarp]

Beethoven Missa Solemnis in D major, Op 123

Oh it was on his radio today! Now the Ninth is on..

[glindhot]

Beethoven: 7 Variations for piano & cello on 'See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes' from Handel's "Judas Maccabaeus" WoO 45

Beethoven: 12 Variations for piano & cello on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen' from Mozart's "The Magic Flute" WoO 46

Beethoven: 12 Variations for piano & cello on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen' from Mozart's "The Magic Flute" Op.66

Handel and Mozart were Beethoven's first and second favourite composers.

[Harvey]

Beethoven Symphony 4 on my 5th trip through all nine symphonies.

[Sorrano]

This morning:
Mendelssohn: String Octet in E-Flat, Op 20

[Michael]

A good deal of Beethoven's lieder. Too many WoO's to list.

[AeolianHarp]

A good deal of Beethoven's lieder. Too many WoO's to list.

Listening to his radio Michael? Many of his lieds are played on there.

[Michael]

Listening to his radio Michael? Many of his lieds are played on there.

Yes - I usually have that on when I'm online. I don't have a laptop - just a desk computer.

[AeolianHarp]

Yes - I usually have that on when I'm online. I don't have a laptop - just a desk computer.

I am online a lot! The laptop I use for radio, watching programmes, playing CDS, as well as general surfing. I am so addicted to his radio station!

[Rocco]

I play his radio station all the time when I'm online. It's playing right now! Although, after I get that 87 CD complete Beethoven set I could almost start my own radio station!