Most beautiful Beethoven melody?

[Megan]

Comes to mind.......I love the Beethoven boogie woogie section in his Piano Sonata no. 32. Op. 111. It's upbeat and brilliant!

There is something for everyone in B's music, full of life, vitality, passion and commitment, and melancholy, etc.

[hal9000]

The final movement of the Pastoral Symphony

No sitting on the fence for me, I'm going to go with this one.

http://youtu.be/iQGm0H9l9I4?t=39m16s

40:20 is the single most beautiful moment in all of music.

[AeolianHarp]

My choice would be the second movement of his Sym. #7. For me this piece is both sad and beautiful at the same time.

Oh it is! And what about the second movement of the Waldstein! The way it starts with that beautiful gentle melody....then it gets faster and more passionate!

[AeolianHarp]

Comes to mind.......I love the Beethoven boogie woogie section in his Piano Sonata no. 32. Op. 111. It's upbeat and brilliant!

It nearly knocked my socks off when I first heard it! I was like whaaaaaaaaaaat?! What a big surprise that was!

There is something for everyone in B's music, full of life, vitality, passion and commitment, and melancholy, etc.

There really is! And often one piece of music will contain all of that!!

[AeolianHarp]

No sitting on the fence for me, I'm going to go with this one.

http://youtu.be/iQGm0H9l9I4?t=39m16s

40:20 is the single most beautiful moment in all of music.

When it goes into pp?

[hal9000]

Yes. I very rarely ever cry at music, but that moment has brought me to tears.

[AeolianHarp]

Yes. I very rarely ever cry at music, but that moment has brought me to tears.

Awwww xxxx

[AeolianHarp]

Violin Sonata in G major op 96, first movement....this will always be one of my top favourites of his music. It is just so magical.

[Michael]

No sitting on the fence for me, I'm going to go with this one.

http://youtu.be/iQGm0H9l9I4?t=39m16s

40:20 is the single most beautiful moment in all of music.

I would put that moment some ten minutes or so earlier, when the theme is first ushered in by the flute, just after the storm movement. The whole finale starts off on a weak beat.
We're both on the same movement, though.

[Albert Gans]

Just looking at this thread says it all to me.... I know why I call Beethoven God. My friends smile at me when I say this, but his music simply is divine and there is soooo much of it that is soooo brilliant.
The development of his music over time, from his early Piano Sonatas to his late String Quartets, that alone is really unique. His incredible genious in experimenting with new stuff, like for example introducing new instruments into the orchestra, to expanding (or pushing for it) the register of the piano, from very classical stuff (even in his 'later' 8th symphony), to the late quartets I just mentioned, which are near to metaphysical.
And like Aeolianharp keeps saying: he manages (and that is also quite unique) to make you travel through the panoply of human emotions in one single piece of music. Which is why I'll always love his 5th symphony. The range of emotions in that work is really unbelievable. And all based, in essence on a simple motive: ta-ta-ta-taa..... No wonder he was admired for his improvisations on the piano. His musical imagination had no boundaries.

[Megan]

The violin in the Benedictus from Beethoven's Missa Solemnis will surely melt your hearts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8oTJJ3HdPM&feature=kp





Actually, I like this version better.
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPNMYBfsqTY


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[thesunlover]

Too many to list......... Just give 2 for now:

> Op.97 3rd movement.
> Op.111 2nd movement.

[thesunlover]

1st movement, Piano Sonata No.12 in A-flat Major, Op.26

The best performer of this work -- Arrou