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...Beethoven’s celebrity was rising against the backdrop of unprecedented upheaval in Europe, and Napoleon Bonaparte captured the composer??s imagination. In 1804, Beethoven wrote a symphony meant to be dedicated to Bonaparte. But after Napoleon shed all pretenses of democracy and crowned himself emperor, the Third Symphony was renamed the “Sinfonia Eroica”—to heroism...
...with the more powerful symbiosis. I like Wes Anderson, but he’s an exception—Tenenbaums was far from a box office hit, and its soundtrack wasn’t a bestseller. There’s no returning to the days when the “composer?? credit on the big screen meant something, or when polymaths like Chaplin would score their own parts...
...opera was written in 1710 but never produced in the composer??s lifetime. It was kept in the Hamburg Library until World War II, when the score, along with many others, disappeared (apparently hidden from anticipated bombing raids...
...peace here, only succeeds in annoying me. The exhibits neurotically proceed along corridors winding upstairs and down, then up and down again. Display cases document a so-called “Viennese fiasco” without providing any clear exposition. Much innuendo and few facts are offered about the composer??s mysterious relations with Nietzsche, Liszt and Bavarian King Ludwig...
...accomplished cellist, Lockwood examines the composer??s sketchbooks and autograph manuscripts to shine light upon Beethoven’s compositional methods. He investigates first Beethoven’s music, and only then, his life...