What is the Beethoven music that keeps being played on this station?

[hal9000]

It is the best concerto I have heard after Beethoven! ( and Chopin).

I think you're forgetting about the little 5'4" dude with the powdered wigs from Salzburg.

I think you might also enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohyGRis5gA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK1Dmj6SEaY

[AeolianHarp]

I think you're forgetting about the little 5'4" dude with the powdered wigs from Salzburg.

I think you might also enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ohyGRis5gA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK1Dmj6SEaY

Yeah, sorry Wolfgang!! I meant to include him of course...

Thanks for links- will listen to tomorrow.

[AeolianHarp]

I agree that the Octet sounds like Beethoven, but enough like Mendelssohn to not sound like an epigonism. It still boggles my mind that he wrote it at 16

Boggling further...he wrote the concerto at aged 13!!
What was going on there?!
And not only that he was also an excellent artist.
Where did that all come from???
From what I can gather from his family history, he wasn't from a musical family like Mozart, Bach and Beethoven- no musicians/composers, yet he and his sister Fanny had innate huge musical ability from early childhood.
Interestingly, none of Felix's children were musical it seems ( from what I can gather; certainly not professionally).

[hal9000]

Boggling further...he wrote the concerto at aged 13!!
.

I wasn't even paying attention to the date in the title of the video. Okay, that's just showing off.

He's arguably the greatest musical prodigy to have lived.

[AeolianHarp]

I wasn't even paying attention to the date in the title of the video. Okay, that's just showing off.

He's arguably the greatest musical prodigy to have lived.

Yeahhh..it keeps going round my head Felix Mendelssohn wrote a brilliant, mature concerto at age 13, of which at that age you were still playing with toys...

It does seem like he was greatest musical prodigy to have lived, from what I have been reading. There is absolutely nothing in that concerto to indicate a child wrote it...incredible..just incredible..

A mystery as to how, why etc...

I feel like playing this recording to everyone I know and saying guess how old this composer was when he wrote it!

[AeolianHarp]

A blog about Felix meeting Goethe, who was amazed by him:

http://mendelssohnsworld.blogspot.co...at-master.html