Ludwig van Beethoven Grosse fuge B-dur op. 133 cz. I

[MohammedTheBabyRaper]

So I was waiting for the Germans to fuck up Beethoven...... Not.

Fucking incredible. My God. Amazing.

Too bad we couldn't package that in a bomb and drop it on Tehran. I'll bet they would all go blind.

Even if they didn't, they would never be the same again.

I'd like to see Allah explain THIS.

[Dreadnoughtification]

Can anyone tell me what that piece at the beginning is? I've heard it often, and it's nice....

[MaximumBreaker]

Die hätten stärker in die Seiten hauen sollen. Aber sonst: Tolles Stück!

[guidepost42]

jeezusss!

[LDixon007]

With musical works like this, there should be a way to petition YouTube to waive the 10 minute limit per post.

[Laudan08]

@LDixon007 already done.

[ldixon11]

@Laudan08 - Since then I've discovered that the Y.T. limit is now 15 min!

~ But the grosse fuge normally runs 15:30 to 16:30 min., so no help there. ;'-(

[Huddiethegreat]

I've considered devoting every second of my life towards understanding this grand masterpiece. Imagine, no work, no school, no people, no sleep, only fugue. Beautiful.

[tubechi1]

oh my doolll, mayorde18 and MIraJeric are so funny...hahaha

[tubechi1]

very nice performance...

[redhotchiliangel]

Awesome.

Love the Tempest Sonata and the Great Fugue.

[MIraJeric]

idiot dur means major in every language except english

and sry you're not an idiot but one can't help wondering

[mayorde18]

What does B-dur mean?? you mean B dorian??

[draculauploader]

I think its sharp or flat but I am not sure what exactly...

[mipaljuststarted]

B in German is Bb, (H is b natural); dur means major, so 'in Bb major'

[chrish12345]

all this serves to do is to muddy the sound of the fugue in what is already a very busy texture

[dafiddler2004]

as for tempo, content dictates tempo. I think there is so much lost in frenetic readings of this work. The "Rudeness" another blogger referred to (although angst resonates more with me) is in the music itself. Then there is the factor that, as in orchestral versions of Verklaerte Nacht and Strauss Metamorphosen, the sheer thickness of the writing, multiplied by the additional players generally leads to some broader tempi.

[dafiddler2004]

3 minutes and change in, this becomes a CATASTROPHY! I do think the orchestral version can work, but making the score transparent or " illuminated" so we are always drawn to new and old points of interest is a hurculean score study for the conductor alone. In this case the entire orchestra has to do it too, IMHO

[lidoro2004]

any one knows what song is the first 15-16 secs??? so awesome but dont know what it is.---

[thegoddescomposer]

its from LUDIW VAN BEETHOVEN piano sonata no 17 tempest 3th movement

[thegoddescomposer]

ludwig

[RandomSeaMonkey]

The third movement of B's piano sonata no. 17

[ashaam]

slow and nicely played,meh.

Große fuge has to be FREAKIN'FAST and RUDE

[loyevsky]

niezapomniane...

[cricketconman12]

uhhhh. it sounds wierd eh. im not sure i like it!

[alano74]

the edges are gone and its too much of everything

[taviona]

True, sounds much too "nice" which IMO it isn't supposed to do.

[chrish12345]

actually it ends up sounding like one of those awful mendelssohn string symphonies, and is far to prettyfied they way these guys do it

[chrish12345]

it does sound completely different in this orchestral version.. odd