I fell in love with Beethoven’s music as a young boy-it spoke to my heart in a way I couldn’t explain. To this day I still lose myself in his music-the greatest composer of all time!
@zaramayne24443 жыл бұрын
Very Well said Yes me too 💞
@oskyperez49892 жыл бұрын
I TOTALLY AGREE
@markhodge4627 Жыл бұрын
Beethoven is GOD!
@Uglybuttfiend8 ай бұрын
I've tried to get into him and the other greats, but just can't do it. I do appreciate them tho for what they did for music and respect their genius. I'm actually envious of people who do "get it", cuz I bet it's amazing to get enjoyment out of it.
@adrianball56703 жыл бұрын
Beethoven is the greatest composer of all-time
@felixlehwalder27583 жыл бұрын
No doubt
@zaramayne24443 жыл бұрын
@@felixlehwalder2758 Amen 💞
@BlueBaron33393 жыл бұрын
No. There's no such thing as all time has not yet happened as people continue to compose music.
@felixlehwalder27583 жыл бұрын
@@BlueBaron3339 From this point of view....ok
@BlueBaron33393 жыл бұрын
@@felixlehwalder2758 Thank you. I love the work of many composers, particularly Gustav Mahler, but I never thought of music as something finished. And it's all about what speaks to you. Symphonic music is nearly the reanimation of another soul and the very act of creating the music fills me with awe. I hope music on this level continues to be created as long as humans are 😌
@rayfan56483 жыл бұрын
Beethoven is my favorite composer, his spirit lives on through his music 🎶
@delzworld20072 жыл бұрын
What a superb documentary. Perhaps some people believe that Beethoven is from a different age and old fashioned. But like other great composer's music, it endures, and will do so forever.
@DWClassicalMusic2 жыл бұрын
😊
@Tolstoy111 Жыл бұрын
Then what composer from that era wrote music that isn't old fashioned?
@clavichord4 ай бұрын
Well, Beethoven is from a different age and his ideals reflect this, but I doubt his music will become irrelevant any time soon and neither will his influence.
@babakashtari64703 жыл бұрын
Since I was a kid (many many moons ago) I have been telling all people around me about who Beethoven was and what he created, and believe it or not many looked at me as if I was mentally disturbed. I am still learning Beethoven and he still amazes with all he created in his life. We all need a god in our lives, he is mine.
@annedwyer7973 жыл бұрын
He has become my musical god, as well! Never mind the skeptics, if you can inspire even one person to experience Beethoven for themselves, your enthusiasm for LvB will have been worth the effort. 🎶💕
@eliosanciolo28443 жыл бұрын
a great figure in history and an inspiration to all who know him!
@julieconnard4372 Жыл бұрын
Mine too, Babak.
@annedwyer7973 жыл бұрын
Thank you, DW and Sarah Willis, for this wonderful, thought-provoking doc about Beethoven and his influence on so many aspects of music, and life in general. I've been having a love affair of sorts with LvB for the past several years, and the more I learn about him and his music, the more amazed I am! Sometimes I think he represents some of Mankind's highest achievement.
@annedwyer7973 жыл бұрын
I loved Ian Anderson saying he pictures Beethoven riding around on a motorcycle! I want a T-shirt with that image on it!!
@MissMark9993 жыл бұрын
Since being “run over” by the Eroica Symphony some 60 years ago, not a day has gone by I haven’t thought about, and been inspired by the music of Beethoven. One of the most extraordinary and influential human beings to have ever walked the planet. Music is a drug (and Beethoven’s my pusher.) Thanks to all concerned for a fascinating and informative film. Music is truly, “A higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy” (Beethoven)
@annedwyer7973 жыл бұрын
I LOVE "Music is a drug (and Beethoven's my pusher)". I feel the same way!
@MissMark9993 жыл бұрын
I’m glad you liked it. Without doubt, his music is the ultimate panacea and pick-me-up for millions. The great mystery, is that no one can explain how, or why it works. We are just grateful that it does, and that we discovered it.
@erichodge5673 жыл бұрын
"...run over by the Eroica Symphony..." Yup, that's exactly what it's like when you first get Beethoven.
@MissMark9993 жыл бұрын
Glad I’m not alone ! It makes you wonder just how many of us have been involved in this life changing experience. Ludwig has a lot to answer for !
@chungchihsu20003 жыл бұрын
I love eroica.
@abbassaada95483 жыл бұрын
Informative and entertaining documentary about the greatest composer of all time. I have been enjoying his music fo over six decades now. I never, ever tire of it.
@northshores73192 жыл бұрын
He was able to put his feelings, good and bad, into musical forms that everyone can relate to because we feel the same emotions. I was reminded of my youth when you showed the Kinks and Stones but had never realized how Beethoven influenced them but somehow I always knew that if he could come back to life today that within a year or so no one else would be able to compete with him in composing any form of music.
@niccolonardi57603 жыл бұрын
A fantastic documentary about modernity of Beethoven! Well done Sarah!
@DWClassicalMusic3 жыл бұрын
👍
@DelsinM3 жыл бұрын
The idea that these metal songs are in some way comparable to Beethoven's 5th symphony is ludicrous. It's not the theme, it's what is done with the theme that matters. The rock bands here mentioned take a simple theme, parade themselves in tight clothes and pomposity, and do nothing musical, while Beethoven takes a simple theme and uses it as a launchpad for deep exploration of musical and spiritual space.
@johndean4765 Жыл бұрын
Delsin the members of these heavy metal groups are not good enough to empty Beethovens chamber pot ! His music is light years ahead of there's.
@joshsussman94323 жыл бұрын
I have loved Beethoven the man and the music my whole life. Love seeing other folks who admire him.
@gabrielacarreno5823 жыл бұрын
Simply the best
@DWClassicalMusic2 жыл бұрын
👍
@anenglishmanplusamerican71072 жыл бұрын
He is my lifeline. Without him, my life is unimaginable like the whole world. I do not know and understand why people feel boring when they listen to classical music.
@TiestoCalvinHarris Жыл бұрын
@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107 Gustav Holst, Henry Purcell, Vivaldi z Mussorgsky?
@autumnleaves276611 ай бұрын
Beethoven achieves immortality through his great music. He had a difficult life: a drunken, abusive father; death of four of his siblings; the child prodigy and composer; being the bread winner for the family at the age of just 18; court musician in Bonn; going to Vienna to further his career; the mood swings and depression; the custody battle over his nephew; the deafness which took hold whilst he was still young; denying himself a long term loving relationship in order to dedicate himself to his music; the political upheavals including the siege on Vienna. Through all this adversity he composed some of the greatest music the world has known. I love Mozart too, but you often feel that Mozart's genius level was such that it all came so easily to him; Beethoven had to struggle and work at it, eg the various revisions over the years to Fidelio, his only opera. He also left his body to science, and had a great sense of humour, even though the deafness made him seem socially awkward and lost in a world of his own. Everyone in the world should get to know Ludwig van Beethoven's music. My favourites include symphonies 1, 3, 5,,6,7 and 9; the piano sonatas, especially the later ones; the songs; the late string quartets. The world would be a better place if more people got to hear Beethoven's great music.
@maria.f20353 жыл бұрын
About the last scene - Beethoven is present in everything. Even those who have never heard before feels unconsciously his presence in current music. Therefore, it becomes really unimaginable. Beautiful doc. Thanks DW.
@logodaedalist3 жыл бұрын
Sarah Willis what a multifaceted person! 💙
@chrisbrendandavis3 жыл бұрын
This was fantastic. I recently got into his music, coincidentally the 250th anniversary. It was really special watching this production. Well done. Made me feel connected to so many other fans even though most of my peers find it boring music. They couldn't be more wrong!
@Johnnywhatagentleman3 жыл бұрын
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven..the miracles of humanity for music
@PianoAngelicus3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely agree 💜💜💜
@michaeltroke72393 жыл бұрын
And all German/Germanic :-( :-)
@PianoAngelicus3 жыл бұрын
@@michaeltroke7239 it’s true
@perotolic22173 жыл бұрын
And Verdi I would say
@PianoAngelicus3 жыл бұрын
@@perotolic2217 and Schumann and Schubert 💜
@antoniomaglione41013 жыл бұрын
The Fifth Symphony is not "one of the most famous music pieces" in music history. Beethoven was, still is, forever will, be one of the few unchallenged and invictus genius Mankind has gave raise to. The Fifth is not only a "piece of music"... The Fifth Symphony graces each listener with the most powerful description of the inevitability of the Universe, like a road that builds itself while it progresses forward, the feeling of which is what the word "AWE" was invented for... Thank you for this service, it is highly appreciated.
@DWClassicalMusic3 жыл бұрын
Dear Antonio Maglione, thank you very much for your comment. If you want to listen to more music by Beethoven or more videos about your favorite composer, just check out our playlist BEST OF BEETHOVEN: kzbin.info/aero/PL_SdnzPd3eBWcX1eOXH-w75x-_-7gRF-w We hope you will continue to visit our channel! Your team of DW Classical Music
@julieconnard4372 Жыл бұрын
Very beautifully said, Antonio.
@GerardoJimenezGuitarrista3 жыл бұрын
This is the MOST beautiful documentary I've ever seen. Perfectly done and match, every part is perfect like a... Beethoven score. Greetings from Costa Rica 🇨🇷
@Boatperson3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! No matter what colour we are - we feel the same internal vibrations!
@anenglishmanplusamerican71072 жыл бұрын
Without Beethoven my life is unimaginable.
@JohnValenteart2 жыл бұрын
This was a very well produced documentary. Sarah Willis is a true gem.
@VicBoD3 жыл бұрын
What a documentary!!! Viele danke!!!
@prabalsarkar36112 жыл бұрын
What I have liked most about this documentary is establishing influence of Beethoven on contemporary music
@DWClassicalMusic2 жыл бұрын
We are glad you liked it! 😊
@sammysanzen3 жыл бұрын
Watching this for school but I have to say, I really enjoyed this!
@dnf2p4Gsake3 жыл бұрын
Thanks DW and Sarah Willis for this entertaining documentary. Sarah rightly said towards the end: "...his innovations and ideas are everywhere".
@LalehanLale3 жыл бұрын
a world without him maybe nothing would be the same and I never want to live in such a world without Beethoven as I always wish to meet him after life, thats all...
@Sekar123453 жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation.Thanks to DW and sarah willis for this video.Beethoven is universal. He may be born in Germany but he crossed all the boarders with his unbelievable talent of music.He touched very nice Indian Raga a few measures in Symphony no 2 third movement.I bought Air tickets to Bonn this year in the month of May to go to his house and some parts of Austria. Unfortunnately this CORONA Virus spoiled the whole world.Anyway we have to move on and on.Regards from India.
@johndean47653 жыл бұрын
What Corona virus its NOT the plague
@melissamahaney85413 жыл бұрын
He was born Bon Germany 🇩🇪
@francobonanni34993 жыл бұрын
Thank you Sarah Willis...great documentary...
@C.I.100111 ай бұрын
May Beethoven live forever!!!!! What a wonderful documentary (Thank you Sarah and everyone)! Love John Williams. THANK YOU SO MUCH FROM BRAZIL!
@edaxsachorwzky8898 Жыл бұрын
Once someone asked Beethoven whom he admired as a great composer and he said: I consider Handel to be the greatest composer to have lived. What a modesty of the great composer
@jmg188411 ай бұрын
I don't need crappy popular music to justify my fondness for Beethoven's genius.
@hertapoars3 жыл бұрын
I saw it yesterday on DW-TV but am sooo happy to found it today on youtube. Really, many, many thanks to DW for upload it so fast for us!
@gretareinarsson7461 Жыл бұрын
I don’t think the music of today would be possible without Beethoven. One can even talk about music before and after Beethoven.
@jasonhampson95793 жыл бұрын
As a fan of Beethoven, to say that there would not be rock music without Beethoven us frankly ridiculous. A riff is different from the way Beethoven uses his motives. He developed his music using continuous development of motives. Beethoven hugely influenced western music, but Western Africa had more of an influence on rock. Don’t try to pretend that Europeans invented the riff. It’s been present in west African music for hundreds of years. This documentary is a missed opportunity to show Beethoven’s huge impact on western culture, which cannot be denied.
@behnstrople86213 жыл бұрын
TOTALLY agree, and I'm a Beethoven fanatic haha
@williamwu46083 жыл бұрын
Agree. The documentary is not as good as I expect.
@DearProfessorRF3 жыл бұрын
I don’t think that is what it was stated. The documentary is filled with examples of how he influenced western culture in different ways.
@anthonyabbott903 жыл бұрын
The supposed influence on rock music is an attempt to drag Beethoven into popular culture. Beethoven Bach Mozart and Handel are the very soul of Western culture perhaps world culture there music will prevail when all else is but a dim memory.
@anthonyabbott903 жыл бұрын
Beethoven scaled the heights and in so doing set a benchmark opus 132 after that all was downhill..Here is an apt comment referring to the Borodin String Quartet's recording : Eduardo Guerra Ávila 2 years ago This string quartet touches other dimensions, a place beyond any other Human work can achieve. The deepness of the spiritual content of this work (specially on the ultra serene adagio) rises to levels that no other art is even close to. Even a non-believer like me feels the presence of a divinity here and makes me feel I have entered a sacred place. Beethoven accomplished in this world a mission that we are not yet come close to discover at all his greatness.
@MagicDuel3 жыл бұрын
Great program but I have to stop right here and say that my mind is completely blown that Beethoven was instrumental in popularizing the metronome! That is just fascinating - I certainly can't imagine practice without one - even if it is usually my phone these days. I think we need to see a whole show about Beethoven and his co-author in that article - Anton Salieri!
@nmeelen3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting documentary about the importance of Beethoven. As a great Beethoven fan I loved to watch it.
@CW-rx2js2 жыл бұрын
My fav composer and incomparable even by other standards. I feel like people know him but don't really appreciate him.
@cavendish0093 жыл бұрын
I went to a talk by Jonathan Biss at the Wigmore Hall and one thing has always stayed with me. He said that of course Beethoven was not influenced by anything anybody else was composing because he could not hear anything. So all his inspiration came from within him and only him !! What a musical mind !!!
@michellsmorgcycle41612 жыл бұрын
But, but, Beethoven didn't go deaf until he was in his 40s (around 1814). I'm sure he was influenced by plenty before then. Definitely by Mozart, Bach, and Haydn, for three.
@prabalsarkar36112 жыл бұрын
@@michellsmorgcycle4161 you are right
@julieconnard4372 Жыл бұрын
@@michellsmorgcycle4161 and many others as well.
@Gold-feather2 жыл бұрын
Now that is a world that I would not want to live in! Bethoven is the most wonderful human being!
@vinylarchaeologist3 жыл бұрын
Rudolf Schenker, casually sitting next to one of the most sought-after and expensive instruments in history, the Yamaha CS-80 😳
@georgemartin1498 Жыл бұрын
Growing of age in the 1950’s/1960’s one of the most popular newspaper comic cartoons was Charles Schultz’s “Peanuts “. The character Schroeder was a pianist obsessed with Beethoven. A few decades later I understand why😁
@melaniamonicacraciun99002 жыл бұрын
Oh yezzzzzz, fans, learning from Beethoven how to pull out the genius nature is never enough, he is a never ending inspiration fans
@ratboy41693 ай бұрын
I was not expecting such a great outlook on Beethoven, I knew there was more to the music & a connection but this has open my eyes to the true connection of music, the greatest language in the world. I have a tiny Beethoven bust, he's the greatest rock star ever.
@DWClassicalMusic3 ай бұрын
We're glad you liked it. Make sure to subscribe for the latest uploads.
@natachachernetskaia72672 жыл бұрын
Hi and best wishes from Normandie, France. I watched the doc video with great interest. I also can't imagine my life without Beethoven and other great composers . But I want to add Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov to your list. OUR LIFE WOULD BE UNBEARABLE WITHOUT MUSIC.
@brutusalwaysminded2 жыл бұрын
Dumb question but any excuse to listen to Beethoven is a good one. Thanks!
@scottwrightmusic23643 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this great work, Sarah (and all others who helped to put this great doc together) - you're a wonderful ambassador for music!
@jackspeight2733 жыл бұрын
Nice documentary DW/Sarah. Hopefully will bring more people from different musical cultures into the world of Beethoven
@niccolonardi57602 жыл бұрын
Very interesting documentary. I agree with you: a world without Beethoven, impossible! On the contrary, I don't agree with Marsalis: even if many people don't know B., they have surely heard his music, but they don't simply recognized it
@yuvalrozanis81713 жыл бұрын
Not without vices, but great work and a unique look at the greatest of them all. Thanks
@changchp Жыл бұрын
Beethoven was the very first composer I had ever known when I was five. Since then he has been with me for almost seven decades
@mauricioinostroza63243 жыл бұрын
Absolutely gorgeous. Magnificent. Thanks for this. Regards, from Chile.
@pierremoreau9863 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant doco, great presenter. Thanks for posting.
@justicegusting24763 жыл бұрын
Why all this preoccupation with Beethoven’s symphonies? His 32 piano sonatas are his grand masterpieces.
@julieconnard4372 Жыл бұрын
For me as well, Justice.
@megamediker Жыл бұрын
This is the type of content, that I throw any TV set out of the window for- Thanks great lecture.
@DWClassicalMusic Жыл бұрын
We're glad you liked it! 😊
@porridgeandprunes3 жыл бұрын
Most of the ideas in Beethoven's symphonies had been done before by Joseph Haydn. But in a much gentler way. Haydn is greatly underrated.
@ulisesdemostenes70743 жыл бұрын
Excuse me, what do you exactly with the ideas?
@markmiller37133 жыл бұрын
Very much so. For me, one of the ways I evaluate conductors is on their ability to conduct a Haydn Symphony. If you can do that well, you definitely have talent.
@erichodge5673 жыл бұрын
It has taken me fifty years to truly recognize the enormous achievement of Franz Joseph Haydn. In my case it was listening to the chamber music, particularly the string quartets and piano trios that convinced me.
@underscoreellipsesdothyphe15633 жыл бұрын
Classical musician hero worship is pointless, many contributed to the lexicon, obviously none can doubt Beethoven, but no one likes to mention people like John Field or Clementi etc
@annedwyer7973 жыл бұрын
Papa Haydn!
@albertmm963 жыл бұрын
I understand this is a popularizing doc, but the 5th symphony is not just 4 notes. And the connection between Beethoven and rock is a bit too much
@windyhead79603 жыл бұрын
Not "rock", heavy metal is a better choice. Many of the metal musicians were heavily influenced by classical music; take Wagner as an example, it's technical death metal before electricity.
@tomato10403 ай бұрын
Beethoven not only changed music he resurrected IT from mere abstraction to emotionally❤️🔥passionate compositions breaking up the ground of consciousness from abstract rules to the Super🎺, 🦸Uber, Sound🎸of🎹Rockin💎Jewels!🥁🎻
@BobBloom2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for spending time on Beethoveen's First Symphony. Not usually profiled. Bravo!
@mariannabach57593 жыл бұрын
Brilliantly thought out documentary, inspiring in all aspects! (Now I will think of Beethoven when I bump into a motorcyclist!) Kudos!!!
@eliosanciolo28443 жыл бұрын
An timely Video given the recent moves to represent and cancel Beethoven totally as a repressive white icon of Western Culture, on the one hand , and the ludicrous claims to appropriate Beethoven as a Black musician whose true racial identity was hidden by racists Western Historians. Which ever way you look at it, Beethoven was and remains a civilizing figure and Saint of Western and world Culture regardless of his "race". His work is an example of the very best that humanity can achieve. God bless his life and my parents for having exposed me to the wonders of his works...I would have despaired many times throughout my life without his Music!!!!
@TiestoCalvinHarris Жыл бұрын
USA woke mob comes up with this nonsense Beethoven is worldwide
@whistlerwind74222 жыл бұрын
Beethoven would insist that the EU find another anthem. The 9th is for peace loving people, not murderous tyrants.
@user-xx5ld8hk5l3 күн бұрын
My twin brother was stationed in Germany while in the US Military and visited Beethoven's home where he learned that his mother was of AFRICAN decent and that she taught his father "12 Tone Music" and this is reason why Beethoven's music is so different and great because Europeans had never heard that wonderful sound before. This was explained to him by the (German people) who worked at his home and it is also documented.but Mis Educated Americans and others need to lthis learn this truth and remove the lies about this brown man, not at all white like paining that we see today.
@tibisaypaiva93833 жыл бұрын
Aunque lo entiendo en su mayoría, pero me encantaría compartirlo con las personas que no entienden el idioma inglés. Muchas gracias. Bravo!!!
@alexandrugheorghe56103 жыл бұрын
1:01:00 not even using a shoulder rest. How the heck does she even plays so good like that? 🤨🤔 Super great documentary. Thank you so much for sharing this with us all. 😌🙌🏻✌🏻👍🏻🤗💜
@sasha421963 жыл бұрын
With Mutter, it's the violin that gets tired and needs a rest. :)
@chmendez2 жыл бұрын
I consider Beethoven the best composer of all-time. But before Beethoven, Vivaldi created his Four Seasons concertos where each one has an associated poem and you see how the music goes with each of the verses. If this is not program music, what is it? Actually the Baroque is known for program/descriptive music. Classical period started the trend of absolute/abstract music. So saying that Beethoven was the pioneer of program music seems incorrect, to me.
@malcolmabram29572 жыл бұрын
Beethoven's music became more romantic as he grew older. I am a baroque and classical fan, and don't care much for the romantics, though do appreciate their compositions. Ironically, I love the romantic Beethoven, perhaps it is because I feel the classical elements in his compositions.
@julieconnard4372 Жыл бұрын
@@malcolmabram2957, could it also be because the content of Beethoven's romantic music speaks universally and transcends the music itself?
@malcolmabram2957 Жыл бұрын
@@julieconnard4372 I think you are right. His quartet the grosse fuge op 133 is a 'screech' but I really enjoy it. There is a dimension that floats above the music itself.
@julieconnard4372 Жыл бұрын
@@malcolmabram2957, that's beautifully said.
@gileador3 жыл бұрын
Bravo Sarah!!!
@Ludwig555553 жыл бұрын
When I was a little boy, Way back home in Bonn My mama told me, I was great. Then when I was a teenager, I knew that I had got something going, All my friends told me I was great. And now I'm a man, A woman took me by the hand, And you know what she told me...i was great.
@aureliancosma380710 ай бұрын
Actually, the repetitive motif referred to in this video can be heard in its rawest form throughout the first movement of Mozart's 25th Piano Concerto. Beethoven probably took inspiration from there.
@pega17pl3 жыл бұрын
A great documentary with right concept analyzing different aspects of Beetoven's music and explains them with the well chosen examples. - Greetings, Heinz
@RoxanneM-2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this magnificent documentary.
@salehbogary3 жыл бұрын
Very impressed with this distinctive work , i really enjoyed and also learned a lot about the great BEETHOVEN .
@halneufmille6 ай бұрын
Without Beethoven, artists wouldn't compose simple melodies. Got it.
@dianamcdougall92513 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. I think Vivaldi's Four Seasons was composed before Beethoven's 6th symphony as a program work, actually... The best comment on Beethoven's place among the other top composers that I've heard is that he's a giant among giants. Says it for me.
@AdrianConstantinJr3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, Vivaldi must be the father of program music.
@ChadIsAmazingMakeADifference2 жыл бұрын
legend. respect.
@jaikee94773 жыл бұрын
Rock music actually started earlier with BACH.
@daviydviljoen93183 жыл бұрын
I mean I've already found some Jazz harmony/rhythms in Bach...
@TiestoCalvinHarris Жыл бұрын
Electric guitar 1931 saxophone late 1800s or early 1900
@ancamg3 жыл бұрын
A world without Bach, or Mozart, or Verdi, or Wagner and the list goes on. Beethoven was amazing, but he was not alone.
@derbywinner63163 жыл бұрын
I will add Vivaldi ☺️
@ancamg3 жыл бұрын
@@derbywinner6316 With all my heart! I love Vivaldi. OTOW, Happy new year!
@adrianwright86853 жыл бұрын
Of the 7 billion people in the world the great majority are probably largely if not totally unaffected by Bach, Beethoven etc - and they seem to get on just fine! Classical music is one of my great loves but I do realise that it is very much a minority interest.
@ancamg3 жыл бұрын
@@adrianwright8685 You are so right! I 2007 I was teaching an adult class (Toronto, GTA). The day Pavarotti died was a sad day for me, so they asked me. I told them I am sad Pavarotti had died, but I was shocked realizing nobody had any idea who the hack was that guy. It was one Polish lady who knew, and told the rest: he was that fat guy singing opera. Ohh, but they had no idea.
@brandonwarweg36222 жыл бұрын
I'd probably put Beethoven as the greatest composer ever simply on the sheer output of masterpieces he composed. Being an amateur piano player, Chopin is obviously my favorite composer ever!! He revolutionized piano repertoire and how the piano should be played and approached. I mean of course there's our beloved Mozart who played his incredibly important roll in showing how melodic & lyrical the piano could and should be with all his genius, and beautifully simplistic compositions that he poured out over his short lifetime. Chopin gets knocked for his lack of symphonies, operas, orchestral works(besides his 2 beautiful Piano Concertos of course!!). But Chopin knew his strengths, and with the innovations happening to the Piano in his day, he discovered how to make the piano sing by composing the most beautiful melodies and harmonies that the Piano could produce. He took etudes from dull systematic studies, to beautiful lyrical pieces of music. Created new forms of musical repertoire for the piano, the Ballad & Polonaise, Perfected the Nocturne, became king of the Waltz, said more in a 2 minute Prelude than most could say in an 11min Sonata, and was so far ahead of his time in his beautiful Mazurkas that were dabbling in atonality(as well as the 4th movement of his funeral March Sonata in B minor), something that wouldn't be explored and accepted for another 80 years. No composer ever had as big of an impact on a specific instrument as Chopin did with the piano. Like Debussy said, "Chopin was the greatest of all...for with the piano alone, he discovered everything."
@sunemunch-petersen53923 жыл бұрын
Beethoven is The Greatest - The Emperor of Music. But the comparison to modern pop and rock is ... silly!
@franciscoferreiracarmo4397 Жыл бұрын
Wonderful documentary, congratulations and thanks a lot!
@DWClassicalMusic Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment, we're glad you enjoyed our documentary 😊
@patrickbyrne78823 жыл бұрын
Been waiting for this!
@PedroTiradoConductor3 жыл бұрын
Simply fantastic!!!
@doesitreallymatterat3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful !
@daveedmundson59232 жыл бұрын
BRAVO, Sarah!!
@mariainesandradealcantara99793 жыл бұрын
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN !!!!!!!THE REBEL MAGNIFICENTE IN HISTORY MUSIC!!!!!!!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
@karaokeentertaintment81973 жыл бұрын
He didn't composed music for the masses he wanted to put a voice to his darken soul, yes he was dark. I believe that he was the original rock star and creator.
@danjtomlinson Жыл бұрын
Sarah, I love this video, Thank You💙💙💙
@smguy711 ай бұрын
Beethoven's late quartets are my inspirations and I am a creator of EDM/electronic music.
@JustWasted3HoursHere2 жыл бұрын
You see, when you write what you feel and hear instead of what you think the musicians can play, you end up with masterpieces that transcend time. The musicians, like many professionals, rose to the challenge and, in fact, were probably very gratified to have the opportunity finally.
@max85913 жыл бұрын
This documentary is wonderful. Thank you!
@DWClassicalMusic3 жыл бұрын
😊
@mysticmouse72613 жыл бұрын
I would prefer hearing how Beethoven affected the high arts not just popular culture
@williamwu46083 жыл бұрын
Agree. We are on the same page.
@AdrianConstantinJr3 жыл бұрын
It's not only positive influence, I'm afraid. After Beethoven, many composer got the idea that the only way of making music is to "revolutionize" it again and again. There is so much room for genius improvements, so what you get at some point is destructive revolutions. And ridiculous attempts like Cage's 4′33″. If you cannot be Beethoveen, settle for Mozart please, instead of trying to sell us the emperor's new clothes.
@williamwu46083 жыл бұрын
I think there might be some positive influences from Beethoven’s music on popular culture. But John Cage‘s 4’33 is weird, if not a joke.
@barralpha3 жыл бұрын
At least this is a documentary my kids will enjoy watching and hopefully will bring them closer to Beethoven. At the end of the day, what matters is what audience the producers had in mind and how to reach out to it.
@mysticmouse72613 жыл бұрын
@@barralpha It isn't a documentary. It's just a collection of opinions to explain pop culture in terms of classical influence. Hardly enough to make a young person a classical follower.
@joshuayu101002 ай бұрын
The first rock star Beethoven said I am good, cocky and Charismatic🤘
@creamrisesup3 ай бұрын
Beethoven's music is a prime example of doing gradiouse thing with less, testament to his famous 5th symphony. If Im tasked to find a national anthem for the planet Earth to represent her in the cosmos, Beethoven music is the first candidate.
@dalinadanergy143210 күн бұрын
A world without Beethoven???..it is exactly like a World without me....START THANKING US...AND BE MORE GRATEFUL
@FILhOrnMusic2 жыл бұрын
Seems John Williams really enjoing that talking :D An amazing Documentary with Sarah!!! Well done :D
@tigana2 жыл бұрын
Great doc:)
@ancamg3 жыл бұрын
Some connections are bit forced, and the V Symphony is not about 4 notes. Beethoven didn't invent metronome, he just used it. Was he the only one using metronome numbers on his music pages? I don't know. Syncopation happens through classical music.
@TRay97139 ай бұрын
Cool dass ihr die Scorpiens dazu geholt habt Hannover 🎉