Originally posted by jeannie7His ninth symphony, especially the fourth movement (presto) is utterly amazing, and the most famous.
anyone in the know here? what is the guys best music?
I have just put his Opera, 'Fidelio' on my mp3 player but haven't listened to it yet.
His piano sonatas are also very good.
Try 'Wellington's victory'. Be careful with the speakers if you have a recording with real canons and guns.
And, of course, all 9.5 symphonies, the sonata's, fidelio, the violin concerto, piano concerto's and many other pieces. Just to say Beethoven is (one of) the greatest.
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Johann Sebastian Bach is by far better than Beethoven. In fact he was one of his teachers.
Bach´s "Air" rules out everything. Besides he was the only known composer who could compose a fugue with six voices without preperation just starting with a theme of four tunes. (A fugue is afaik a type of music where a certain theme must be answered by all voices under certain rules and is extreeemly hard to compose.
I like 7th - and Jacques Loussier does a nice version.
On a slightly different tack - do you ever wonder what the likes of LudVonB and Mozart would have done with modern technology?
In the case of Ludwig - give him some bionic ears - then play them both a couple of minutes of Hendrix... some Moby ... some trance ... what would they have done with that sort of capability?