Grosse Fuge, Ludwig van Beethoven part 2

[THEMUSICALDREAMER100]

One of the greatest monuments, not only of music...but of all mankind.

Divine !

It deserves to be heard also in the interpretation of the Juilliard String Quartet, my favorite.

[ObeyTheMuse]

how does he run the melody so many times then he shows it off "wierdlee"

[manoels1]

Sem adjetivos para descrever este momento genial!!!

[jani14jani]

This work isint beatifull, you know why??!?!? Beethoven meant/wanted this piece to sound ugly/grose.

[metalheadnick555]

This sounds like the perfect link between Baroque foms (the fugue) and 20th century tonality (while it's not atonal, Beethoven definitely isn't smacking you in the face with it like a certain Mozart or Haydn). Superb work.

[gonrolgonrol]

One of my favourite parts are about 2.05-2.30 with the strong dissonance parts with the violin "thrills"/"vibrato".

[plagueofangels666]

it sounds like a chaos at first, but it is tremendous, it is beethoven in its purist form!

[EyeShotFirst1]

Warnings such as "The most demanding piece of music ever" or "Beethoven's worst work" or even Stravinsky's comment "an absolutely contemporary piece of music that will be contemporary forever." caused me to see for myself. I being a big fan of Beethoven had never gone further than symphonies, sonatas, and concertos. I must say this piece is way better than I thought. Beethoven presents music more intimate than before with this piece. This isn't his worst work, it's one of his best works.

[Barbapippo]

which quartet is playing? It's a magnificent performance of this tremendous fugue

[RochesFan]

@Barbapippo Quartetto Italiano, from the Phillips label. It's from the album titled "Late Quartets, Vol. 1."

[Emili4n00]

This is absolutely the Voice of God.

[keetner]

The fact he wrote this when he was deaf is disturbingly amazing.

[VFellhn]

This,Tristan and Isolde,Don Giovanni,Mass in B(Bach) are proofs that human approached godlike status.

[Grondorn]

@VFellhn Couldn't agree more, those sure are among some others the most majestic works ever created

[ccamilotorres]

Bravo!!

[kempff95]

6:27-6:40 BEUTIFUL!

[aicos1424katsu]

1:47 - 2:05 absolutely orgasmic

[kempff95]

@aicos1424katsu WHAT A COMMENT!!

[jewish1972]

i cannot even distinguish the diff voices well

[VFellhn]

@jewish1972 STFU u stupid retard.I bet u dislike everything german,arent u?

[sstuddert]

Supreme tonal architect! such profoundity as this we will never again know, he went where art itself ended.

Where so many others merely passed into oblivion, he trod over the threshold of eternity and existed in the hereafter.

[jewish1972]

blah,blah, blah!, nonsense!

[dddilly]

To the marrow!! Wow.

[af796]

best comment i've read...i'm jealous of this line...i should have come up with..and i'm not being sarcastic

[RICPOIRIER1]

C'est l'Art de la fugue au limite du possible! Bonne performance! Merci.

[demianmaciel8]

trascendent!

[thegoddescomposer]

just hear this part 1.55 untill 2.31 just wow great fuga

[Greenwolfdragon]

Of the Beethoven works i have heard (though i haven't heard that many) this composition is my favorite! I have to admit, though, i like part 1 better. I find my self sort of annoyed when it changes pace, but i have to remind myself about the hard times he was going through. After that, i find myself liking it a bit more.

[revilo178]

well, I kinda understand why the first reporter wrote "I'm not going to say anything about the fugue at the end of the concert, for it was just like Chinese to me".

[bionicboob]

Ludwig van Beethoven ist der Künstler der Götter

[grThetrojan01gr]

I heard it with my headphones... PERFECT!

[rcc400]

and The Suffering, and to not be able to grasp, and hear its love.

[Kumagoroo23]

One of the lastest pieces of Ludwig Van Beethoven... a quartet that didn't like anyone at the beggining but, it's too a quartet that has inspired a lof of composers around the world... Kinda fantastic xD

[rewquiopfdsahjkl]

I'm pretty sure the quartet itself didn't have any such opinions.

[thegoddescomposer]

:O wow u sure can feel and hear the pain of beethoven , his suffering , his deafness, his power , his strenght, all together , dear god, so beauitfull

[EmpRichard]

It's imperfection in it's most perfect form

[dragmio]

@EmpRichard That's probably the best description of Beethoven.

[Zinkalt]

Hooray for Beethoven.

[BarbaraPloyer333]

Wow. Um, OK. Wow. Just- wow.

You really dislike Beethoven (no duh). Yo, dude- he had a NATURAL TALENT FOR MUSIC!!!!

(Excuse the rudeness.)

However, it's your opinion... if you don't like it- well, you can't force someone to like something, can you?

[Grondorn]

@hultkrans You should be tortured to death

[ldixon11]

Thanks for posting this version. It's slower than usual in some parts - but with the great works, I like to get to know many versions, as part of "internalizing" it.

[PianoMazter]

CHAPEAU

[PianoMazter]

Chpeau

[seanlh]

hey. if you don't like the music, then piss off.

[beethomozart]

for many interpreters such as the excellent pianist Glenn Gould and composers such as Stravinsky, this Grosse Fugue is one of Beethoven greatest works, if not the besy, well I don´t go that far,being the 9th the greatest one, but still is a wonderful masterpiece of dissonances taking the instruments to the limit,long live ludwig van

[8xXxbutterflyxXx8]

awesome composition by beethoven ^^

thanks for sharing!

[mohaa279]

Beethoven expresses love, peace, genorosity and honesty altogether between the time interval 8:37 and 8:47

[thegoddescomposer]

HE BROKE The rules many times, with his music so powerfull, but this he was fuckin deaff, had no woman,, was alone , just think he , that kind of men ,, only was beethoven, a mad man with a big heart full of passion with music powerfull music, long life beethoven,, forever

[oxe83]

I like Beethoven very much but this song is very boring.

[MANCVSO]

It is not a song. Nobody is singing.

[vickiiscool101]

Do you mean opera or that rock pop hip pop shit everyone likes?

[ElScotto]

Lol pwnd

[fiddlinmatt]

make an attempt to dig deeper, or go try composing a fugue, and your view will probably change

[sstuddert]

And what works of Beethoven do you like? The first movement of the moonlight sonata but not the other two? or perhaps you listen only to the exposition of the 5th symphony's first movement?

It's people like you, who only listen to and appreciate works which are popular or well known to the public, who do not understand the first thing about music and should not listen to it let alone make stupid comments about it.

Go listen to "2-pac" or "icecube", that kind of music suites morons like you.

[haruwan21]

Dear brother or sister (as the case may be) in Beethoven,

Nothing but love and support for you! But let's go easy on even the "morons." May we all find enjoyment and truth in whatever music speaks to our souls--including the great Tupac!

Bless you, Profound Soul that you are!

[sstuddert]

What an extraordinarily stupid comment.

[xcaluhbration]

2pac is for morons? Taken from someone who more than likely only heard california love or his more.. as you would say "popular songs" or the ones "well known to the public". Generalizations like yours are harmful. Beethoven is on a broader scale more appreciated after death much like Pac, with EVERYONE. But comments like these suite morons like you.

[LDixon007]

I've heard that in special circumstances, YouTube will allow for pasts over 10 minutes. Try contacting them.

[sstuddert]

read my comments on part one of this and then understand that Beethoven was doing to the audience, the performers and the composer exactly what he was doing to Karl.

[sstuddert]

I don't know why I got so many thumbs down for that comment, I was just trying to explain one of the reasons for the the tortured sound the master created. I was by no means insulting his music, I was praising it.

[keimica]

gxgfree4rhyme....did you get my message?...check your mail

[keimica]

but playing with the tempo is not adding to the architecture of tone in the piece

[keimica]

yes, i do realize most of it is played at standard speed

[keimica]

when they play slow, its too slow...fast, too fast....and without great care given to the nuance of play

[keimica]

the interpretation just kind plays around with speed....but the nuances are not there...beethoven also thought this was his best work and who am i to disagree,when played right is a natural high...but this is not played right

[jonezysan]

His best from opus 130, he liked his 131 best of all

[keimica]

Hi gxgfreeforrhyme!

jonezysan,

Really? I suspected as much--for one reason--because his favorite key to compose was C, and it being C-sharp minor might suggest that what flows easiest to him is what satisfies him artistically as well.

[keimica]

and the fast parts are too fast

[keimica]

there is a relation to jazz in some sense...but im not goin to go into that...i will say that this is not the best interpretation, maybe part of that is the sound quality (technically, and the instruments), but the interpretation:every note/chord should be played like worlds are moving and with nuances that make it perfect.this piece is played as if tempo is a nuance (play slow and thats nuance enough), yes, tempo is key, but you need the nuances to back up the tempo & those passages r too slow

[MartinWSklar]

The actual playing is exquisite! What quartet is playing and who is in it? When was it recorded and where ? Thank you.

[wilddare]

plz plz plz stop saying that it's ugly coz it's not ugly at all

[gspaulsson]

It's tormented (except where it finds celestial peace). Is torment ugly? I hope so.

[wilddare]

i don't think that torment is ugly ..

maybe it's just hurtful but not ugly ..unless that if you mean it's hurtful by saying ugly ..

i just love .. it's touching something in my soul .. it even makes me cry sometimes ..

you know i think that it tells his life and his suffering ..i think that he was deaf when he composed it .., so it tells what he listened and he is a good listener ..

[kolkrabe19]

It is difficult to discover beauty in it and I would dismiss it as awkward and rather ugly at first hearing if I did not know that this is from the master`s pen.

[hellomate639]

I heard immediate beauty.

[sstuddert]

No, No. One must study this work, and any musical work, to truly understand it.

[kolkrabe19]

Could you advise me from which angle I could approach it, please ? My intuition tells me nothing.

[sstuddert]

You can start by learning the history of the work, that is, when was the work composed and what was happening to the composer within this time period. That's whwere it gets difficult. Go out, purchase the music for the fugue (you'll almost certainly have to order it) and begin studying the work. Be warned though, it's one of the most complicated musical compositions ever written.

[kolkrabe19]

Thank you.

[reichsfuhrer1987]

I LIKE IT. ITS UGLY BUT BEATIFUL TOO