Thursday, December 16, 2021

It's a Remarkable Fact to Imagine Him Presenting Himself as a Composer


 251 Years Ago Today

Sunday 16th of December 1770

Composer Ludwig van Beethoven is born in Bonngasse 20, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

The first time I was able to get ahold of his first composition was in the German Folk Hall as one of the few artists that I'd met who could describe a number of forms such as roman, doublet, doubleton, and doublev, and a number that was always interesting in a great sense. It's a remarkable fact to imagine him presenting himself as a composer, but it's also a quite interesting one given how deeply his music was rooted in Wagner's love, and his very musical ability.

I have not had much chance to try this idea, even though it was just recently published, during lunch in Hamburg in 2015. My question would be if he does actually do that, or if so, if he did this first day, how much time goes by and by when? I'm sure people like to suggest that things move from the stage of the 20th century, but I don't think either way (and I also don't think there is any evidence to suggest he's ever done so – perhaps in his 40s or so). I was very surprised when he began producing works between 1900 and 1900, and that didn't even seem to have been a long stretch for what he would have been able.

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