How did you come to love Beethoven?

[Quijote]

Having said that, some of Bruckner's writing for the 'celli in his symphonies and Masses shows he had been on the bottle, of that I can assure you ...

[PDG]

Alcoholic or not alcoholic, what do I care? When he was drunk : he wrote the Battle Symphony. When he wasn't, he wrote the rest.

Hey, Phil, don't you mean the Bottle Symphony?....

[PDG]

Just look at Richard Nixon in the good old USA (he was also a wife-beater). Have a good day!!

Hi Bonn. The only thing I've ever beaten is an egg, but I wasn't married to it at the time....

[Bonn1827]

That wasn't Googie Withers was it?!

[PDG]

It's name may well have been Googie Withers, but to me it was just an egg (we had a very uncommunicative relationship).

Goo Goo Ga Joob.......

[Michael]

Hey, Phil, don't you mean the Bottle Symphony?....

You never lost it, PDG!

[Cocchini]

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Before I leave, I want to tell you I much like your... avatar (?) with sunglasses and your nick too, because it sounds pleasant in Italian, as the plural of COCCO - COCCHINO which is an affectionate term
I don't know the translation, "darling", "pet" but in some cases it's also used in a sarcastic way (cocco di mamma, mother's pet, the favourite). Btw very funny.
Bye

Thanks!

[Peter]

Having said that, some of Bruckner's writing for the 'celli in his symphonies and Masses shows he had been on the bottle, of that I can assure you ...

And we musn't forget Sibelius whose violin concerto emerged during one almighty binge. He once remarked that all the doctors who forbade him from drinking and smoking were long dead!

[Hacko]

Hello, I am new here. Quite happy to have found this place. LvB is by far my favorite composer, though I cant remember how did I come to love him. Currently Les Adieux is in my headphones
I wont post much, but I will be around reading.

[Peter]

Hello, I am new here. Quite happy to have found this place. LvB is by far my favorite composer, though I cant remember how did I come to love him. Currently Les Adieux is in my headphones
I wont post much, but I will be around reading.

Welcome Hacko, feel free to join in when it suits you.

[Hacko]

Thanks. I feel I need to learn a lot and have little to offer.
Anyway, to give somewhat of an answer to the question here - the love was a mix of T. Mann's "lecture" on op. 111 in Faustus and Schiff Andras guardian posted "lectures" on piano sonatas. It all starts and ends with the Arietta

[Roehre]

Thanks. I feel I need to learn a lot and have little to offer.
Anyway, to give somewhat of an answer to the question here - the love was a mix of T. Mann's "lecture" on op. 111 in Faustus and Schiff Andras guardian posted "lectures" on piano sonatas. It all starts and ends with the Arietta

Welcome to these boards, Hacko.
Do you -like me- regret you cannot listen to any of Adrian Leverkühn's compositons ?

[Peter]

Welcome to these boards, Hacko.
Do you -like me- regret you cannot listen to any of Adrian Leverkühn's compositons ?

You can - isn't he really Schoenberg?

[Hacko]

I do and I don't.
Mann confessed he used Schoenberg music theory for part of his character, which doesn't make me regret it On the other hand, Adrian's plan was to decompose and take away from Humanity the 9th, if I remember well. To have the perfect anti-9th would be a real musical treat, no?

[Roehre]

You can - isn't he really Schoenberg?

We assume he is. Schönberg however disagrees .