Beethoven GREAT FUGUE op. 133 Leipzig String Quartet

[RandyPanTheGoatBoy86]

Can you upload the complete version?

[AlessandroGradi]

4.40 - 4.45 totally crazy

[SweetSnakeBzz]

Pacotecli brings me here :)

[chrish12345]

its great as long as you don't look at the idiot pictures

[masterofmetallica09]

This is really really awesome and even terifying in some way, but it surely isn't beautiful. Maybe it was to Beethoven, the poor deaf man thought this would be beautiful but it is not really harmoneous.. That's also why I love this piece so damn much..

[Ermanno01398105]

...maybe life is senseless...but...i don't give a fuck...it's just worthy to live it...and if u've music and love...it's no more senseless...thank you Ludwig...for this masterpiece

[MrDavid0415]

Hay que estar loco para apreciar esta pieza. Es horrible y asquerosa, pero también es hermosa. Si todos estuviéramos lo suficientemente locos (loco y enfermo mental son cosas muy distintas), el mundo sería mas agradable.

[danielchong1234]

this music is so beautiful but after some time of hearing it , i have headache.feels like my brain and emotion are so unstable and in such a mess.@@

[manthasagittarius]

@danielchong1234 It's the visual aspect of the video that is jarring. It was an interesting experiment, but if you really analyze it, trying to represent the turbulent quality of the music in the visual is too much of a division of sense; and it is a good try, but not a great try as far as synchronization is concerned. Some will take it in stride -- but others may suffer headache or queasiness from it. (Beethoven, of course, has survived worse.)

[WolfikCZ]

Fantastic!!!



[82224561]

In my opinion a performance like this must be only...heard without any ..pictures ,is Great!!

[jpbouz]

@82224561 I completely agree. As if there isn't enough to think about already.

[franz1828]

very very fine, the summit in music!

[kimjociable]

This song has such a distorted beauty to it

[jebsievers]

This is brilliant. Beethoven obviously was a Nebraskan like me.

[LourensFick20]

1000+ bars of pure insanity

[mirrors1]

Then, can a man write this music? I think not, he is an angel

[richtomes]

Where does this video come from ? - I see no available DVDs from this quartet

[pimperlpom]

Melancolia exultante.

Viajar al Sol es más sencillo que escribir estas 80 páginas.

[RicardoColombiaB]

Que buen vídeo!! gracias., ..... Entre más se oye esta fuga más se aprecia.

[MrBetovenforever]

La primera vez que la oí me sonó como si arañaran un plato...ahora he descubierto su increible belleza.

[TEMPLADO721]

@MrBetovenforever

jajaja ya ves, yo la primera vez que la escuche tenia 13 años en clase de música, me reí entonces y me da vergüenza ahora de no haberme dado cuenta de estar escuchando una de las mejores melodías para nuestro oído, sí, tiene una belleza celestial, al igual que su 9ª sinfonía, la escucho cada mañana.

[MrDesperateArtist]

Beethoven always proved that music is universal.

[rodrigolarapiano]

bravíssimo maestro!! uma obra prima de um compositor que pode ser considerado um milagre!!

beethoven is a miracle!!

[PELUKONSASO]

esas son huebadas

[Vanguarde12]

To the 9 people who disliked this:

TROLL TROLL TROLL TROLL ALERT.

[develish16]

how could somebody hate this :S:S:S

[LanSiscariote]

Beethoven debio sentir mucha pena cuando pudo presentar su gran fuga a todos los que esperaban esa obra revolucionaria de beethoven, al escucharla fueron decepcionados.. de por si beethoven tenia un caracter tan huraño y malhumorado.. no me imagino cuanto rencor debio sentir a toda esa gente tonta que solo dijo que beethoven ya habia perdido el juicio..

Pensar en todo esto mientras escucho la gran fuga me parece muy triste,poniendome en el lugar de beethoven me sentiria abatido :(

[salvadorallende73]

Dios mio, como puede un ser humano crear esto, como es posible

[theponsmed]

i absolutely LOVE this video and music

[Moon0Royalty]

At 2:46, you can catch a glimpse of the music sheet. Its incredibly complex and advanced, perfectly suited for describing modern society.

[raulandres89]

grosso beethoven!

[LeonBeethoven]

Mi gran maestro Ludwig,mi unika razon de existencia...

[misionero3000]

Futurist...

[DorianKill]

Fantastico!!!! Grande Beethoven...

[gabysil]

Amazing!

[xodrumminjules]

we just had a masterclass with these guys! they are incredible! But their 1st violinist has changed...he was hilarious. Great piece!

[huholah]

this piece of music was actually heavily criticized when Beethoven published it

[alacrab]

Great video and grate music. thanks!

[impressivebill]

I think Mr. Beethoven would have loved the video, too. It fits perfectly with the mood.

[metteholm75]

It feels like being beaten with a baseballbat!

[PabloRGA]

it's horrible, n a good way =P

[TheMazurka]

@PabloRGA you watch too much copying beethoven =)

[vanya2309]

Hell damn me, it's incredible!

[redhotchiliangel]

Acid!

Awesome!

Fantastic!

[MonctonRealEstate]

Well done !

[Mike2008and2008]

Fuge Fusion!

[1990spartan]

Beethoven dijo que esta obra era para el futuro....no para su epoca.....veo que las apreciaciones de su tiempo no le favorecio del todo, no apreciaron la hermosura de la GROSSE FUGUE!!!! Pero ahora es tiempo y categoricamente digo Grosse Fugue bienvenida a tu epoca!!!!! Felicidades...

[Desmonddd2002]

@1990spartan Stravinsky and all modern critics agrees with you. Me too. This is the greatest string quartet ever written.

[mano6292]

@1990spartan Jejeje, así es. Hay que hacer una fiesta :D

[tetragasmilecheputa]

@1990spartan si. esta es una obra visera, torcida totalmente adelantada a su epoca. grosse fugue es un verdadero obra de arte musical!!! inspiracion para futuros compositores!!!!! yo trato de comprender realmente esta obra cada dia de mi maldita existencia!!! me drogo, tomo alcohol mientras la escucho a ver si asi puedo captar en que pensaba el gran maestro Beethoven al componerla y creo que lo he logrado. en mi parecer siento que sufria un enorme desgarro interior, al igual que yo.

saludos.

[orleomarty]

what have beethovens good music to do with fuck car industry

[wandersong]

A lot, actually... This is an excellent commentary on Western civilization.

[ellithevoice]

amazing!

[miniarrau]

very good of course is beethoven

[halloerde]

It is not about anything mechanical or automatic. It brings about change, that creates beauty out of chaos. It begins with an Overtura that poses a paradox-the same theme in four very different guises ( in reverse order that they appear in the work). What kind of development can account for such drastic transformations? At measure 31 begins the Fuga, a double fugue where the two themes jar with extreme disssonace. But at the end, the two themes are harmonious, as though dancing.

[halloerde]

The best version is still the 1960's Quartetto Italiano. They are the only ones who take the section marked "Meno mosso e moderato" slow enough, that one is suddenly confronted with the challenge of how a theme so jarring could suddenly sing so beautifully. The same goes for the second " Meno mosso" section starting at measure 224, where the second fugue subject ( it's a double fugue) , now also sings beautifully, in the cello. This resolution is key, and if it is raced through, you miss it.

[rchen123]

halloerde: I have this version of Q Italiano on LP, I will listen to it first. thanks for your analysis.

[halloerde]

Good rchen123. Iwill be interested to hear what you think.

[grunga1]

amazing I`m speachless

[iriemil]

This is the best interpretation i've heard

[TheManSAberi]

agreed. emerson might beat it actually :P

[bopri9]

agreed:)

[EMPERORMIKI]

emerson is better.

[edwardk1011]

the lindsays do my fav recording of this. op 132 is beautiful as well!

[waverly2468]

Listeners who like this piece should try and hear a recording of the entire Beethoven op. 130 quartet. The Grosse Fugue is the last movement of this quartet. The five movements that precede it actually lead up to and prepare for this finale.

[earsense]

I agree with previous comments: where is the 2nd half? Wonderful . . .

[tranelarod]

ok so I know Germans love their cars, but what does this music have to do with modern machinery? I'd really LIKE to get some opinions about this!

[iriemil]

For me this music perfectly reflects the struggle and the non sense of life , the same cycle again and again, the cars and some other stuff in here can also show that fact , we are moving but moving had become an automatic thing,our will just doesn't really matter, beethoven is my hero :)

[bopri9]

Chopin once said that music is like clouds, you can see whatever you want there:), these are just abstract figures. If you think that this interpretation sucks do not look at it, open a new tab. Personally, I think that it look nice if combined with the great fugue. The classical music does not have any particular 'plot' as modern music does, therefore you can interpret it as you wish.

[mathistle]

Where's the rest of it!!!! AHAHAHAHAH

[edwardk1011]

oh i love ligeti. shoenberg not so much. my fav is beethoven though

[edwardk1011]

i adore this fugue and am 15?

[EMPERORMIKI]

Listen to Ives, Schoenberg, Ligeti, and Carter for more great music.

[thepianovirtuoso]

Huh? Why are you saying that? I adore this fugue too, and I'm 14

[sickm0de]

yeah,and i love all beethoven music and all the great composers,including this fugue and im 14 too!!!

[violaconbrio]

Weil es nachts kälter ist als draußen? Und monophon gespielt bleibt von der ganzen schönen Polyphonie nichts übrig? Den Kommentar finde ich Käse

[ouinonyes]

wow so powerful

man imagine conducting this (even though it doesnt need conducting) i think conductors would go wild on the booth

[sumiregusa23]

I couldn't understand that music for a long time. Now I love it. I guess you must become older and wiser to see beauty of this piece.

[soltisviolin]

I totally agree, when I was a child, I didn't quite understand this piece, but now after having much more musical training, and development, I see now how incredible it is.

[whomakemefeel]

This Brilliant piece carring many fotos about Beethoven life and most of all this foto tragedy and miserable he dream indeed

[Op3t]

oh, and I would have used images of mother nature at her worst .. very suitable.. ;)

[Op3t]

Beethoven going nuts.. and excellent it was!

[cellyguy4000]

Can someone explain all the cars?

[diapas3]

perfecto maestro beethoven, supo ver usted siglos.....de dias encontrados....

[Libertein818]

just one question mosellsq: wheres the rest of the fugue/movement? I'd love to hear it. can you upload it?

[BellatrizLestrange]

the sound is great

[fiddlinmatt]

It feels kind of like Shostakovich in parts

[fiddlinmatt]

love the cranes

[vickiiscool101]

This is awesome!!

[Libertein818]

Finally a version of his fugue up to speed. Why does everyone else on you tube play it so slow? it makes it boring. But this is incredible! i love it.

[thebloads]

its difficult. Even for pros

[fiddlinmatt]

Yeah I think if you're going to dispense with anything in the final product at that level it's going to be the zippy tempo. You can still make music and play on the slow slide. But Libertein is right I think, this is quite awesome, and I think the tempo has something to do with it.

[fiddlinmatt]

and I was just talking to everyone there not really only thebloads.

[leonarddixon7]

Excellent version by the Leipzig Quartet - hadn't heard it before. Is part 2 available on YouTube? - I can't find it.

The video is well done, but I prefer just listening.

[Dr3dziQ]

Super! Wielka Fuga, zajebiste wykonanie i oprawa video! szacunek dla nich! Good work!

[cricketconman12]

this is amazing! well done !!!! wow

[elisaballerina456]

WONDERFUL WORK!

[anon8924]

how has this thing had only 632 views? i'm pretty sure i contributed about a hundred views myself...

is the full movie available anywhere?

[achum168]

the opening is pretty awesome XD

and the rest is beautifully done!

[mellotron12]

Amazing! I love it. Wonderful work.