BBC.The.Genius.of.Beethoven.3of3.Faith.and.Fury (2/7)

[iguarni]

My friends, we're in front of one of the greatest mankind's geniuses ever!!!!

[iguarni]

Sonata per pianoforte n. 29 op. 106. Last moviment: Fuga a tre voci con alcune licenze.

[abbeymons]

Thank you so much for posting this.

[Jinggley]

My only complaint with this series is how overly sympathetic they are to Johanna. While Ludwig definitely overreacts she really was kind of a skuzz-ball.

[Emanuele6943]

What's the name of  piece at 1:54 ???

[xzabok]

He was probably right about the mother though..

[CheekyVimto08]

jeez the kid is obsessed with his bloody mum

[dalecampbl7]

Beethoven was such an anti social person

[iguarni]

@dalecampbl7 No he liked mankid so much as he wrote in his letters. The problem was his deafness who put him in a terrible condition! HE HAS BEEN THE GREATEST MUSIC'S GENIUS EVER IMHO

[dalecampbl7]

i think timing has it...i would say beethoven was the greatest of his generation...No.1 IMHO, but I dunno if he's necessarily better than Bartok or Shostakovich who came later and had to deal with what was already explored prior thorhg beethoven, chopin wagner, liszt. etc.

[iguarni]

@dalecampbl7 I meant he has been the most prolific and complete composer in music history ever.

[bguay26]

@dalecampbl7 Except bartok and shostakovich's music just isn't that good. There are no memorable melodies for me, compared with beethoven. Sure it's interesting, but that's about it.

[dalecampbl7]

@bguay26 Bartok and Shostakovich are great in their own rights...it's hard to compare two composers from such different social circumstances under different time periods...but I would say Bartok and shostakovich were the best from their time periods.

[dalecampbl7]

@bguay26 i used to feel the same way about Bartok and Shostakovich...but then one year I fell in love with Bartok...his language is incredibly impressive...tight knit...i dunno, anyone can definitely enrich their musical comprehension by adding Bartok into the listening repertoire

[adamszczurowski]

BTW, I'm really proud because some of the scenes here, notably 2:58 to 3:35 were shot in my home city of Wroclaw (former Breslau); more precisely in Ostrow Tumski, where I live:

en.wikipedia. org /wiki/ Ostr%C3%B3w_Tumski,_Wroc%C5%82­aw

upload.wikimedia. org /wikipedia/ commons/9/9f/Wroclaw-Katedra-3­.jpg

[adamszczurowski]

What a great documentary!!! Really one of the best out there.

I would also recommend You another BBC documentary "Eroica- the movie", which is also fantastic and shows the first performance of Beethoven's 3rd symphony. Just search it on the Youtube.

[npatrick67]

thank you very much this was very inspiring.