A Beethoven "future figure"

[AeolianHarp]

Don't forget this is a reply to a thread of over ten years ago - Interesting to see these old comments resurrected - I don't agree with a lot of what I said then!!

Yes but I like to get new discussions going out of interesting threads lol...I do hope you still stand with Beethoven's greatness.

[Michael]

Don't forget this is a reply to a thread of over ten years ago - Interesting to see these old comments resurrected - I don't agree with a lot of what I said then!!

Gone off Beethoven, Peter?

[Megan]

Same here, it's strange how our opinions can change over the years.

[AeolianHarp]

Gone off Beethoven, Peter?

Well he's here so I assume not! And who could go off dear Beethoven?!

[Peter]

Yes but I like to get new discussions going out of interesting threads lol...I do hope you still stand with Beethoven's greatness.

Yes and it's interesting to see them again - don't worry I'm still a faithful Beethoven fan, but I wouldn't state now as I did elsewhere in that thread that Brahms was the greatest symphonist after Beethoven - I'd probably say Bruckner was and yet I know I also disparaged Bruckner in early posts!

[AeolianHarp]

Yes and it's interesting to see them again - don't worry I'm still a faithful Beethoven fan, but I wouldn't state now as I did elsewhere in that thread that Brahms was the greatest symphonist after Beethoven - I'd probably say Bruckner was and yet I know I also disparaged Bruckner in early posts!

Well I don't know! I would have to hear a good number of the others to judge-nobody could match the Ninth that's for sure!

[Michael]

Yes and it's interesting to see them again - don't worry I'm still a faithful Beethoven fan, but I wouldn't state now as I did elsewhere in that thread that Brahms was the greatest symphonist after Beethoven - I'd probably say Bruckner was and yet I know I also disparaged Bruckner in early posts!

That's interesting. About ten or fifteen years back, I would have said the same about Brahms, but I haven't listened to him very much since. As I am susceptible to prompts from this forum, I'll probably give him a chance today.

I'm still divided about Bruckner's symphonies (I'm getting on in years, and I'd like to be sure, when I start listening to one of them, that I'll be still alive at the end of it.) The same would go for Mahler, although I absolutely love the First and the Fourth.

[AeolianHarp]

Well I still don't know re symphonies but for me, what I have heard so far, Tchaikovsky (or possibly joint with Rachmaninov) is after Beethoven for piano concertos.

What a shame noone from my land can make any claims- we are thin on the ground for genius composers...oh well, we had the literary women and men.

[Michael]

What a shame noone from my land can make any claims- we are thin on the ground for genius composers...oh well, we had the literary women and men.

What about the Beatles?

[AeolianHarp]

What about the Beatles?

They were pop musicians, not geniuses, no direspect to them intended. but not in the same league as Beethoven!

[Michael]

They were pop musicians, not geniuses, no direspect to them intended. but not in the same league as Beethoven!

Fair enough, but forum members here will tell you that I was - and always will be - a Beatlemaniac. They introduced me to all kinds of music and I will never tire of them.
And I'm not just saying that because you are based in Liverpool!

[AeolianHarp]

Fair enough, but forum members here will tell you that I was - and always will be - a Beatlemaniac. They introduced me to all kinds of music and I will never tire of them.
And I'm not just saying that because you are based in Liverpool!

Of course you are not Michael...
I don't mind them; for pop musicians they wrote some catchy tunes and are far better than the rubbish churned out today. Their music is useful for learning chords on the piano as well ( some of their stuff is in my piano for all course)- being doing Let It Be earlier.
And John Lennon found Beethoven's c sharp minor sonata an inspiriation for Because.