Tag Archives: Beethoven at 250

Something for Thursday

Posted on April 10, 2020 by Kelly Sedinger

If you’ve ever been around piano students or piano teachers, you’ve heard this work of Beethoven’s. The Sonata No. 8 in C minor, also known as the Pathetique, is often a young pianist’s first entrance into the world of the … Continue reading →

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Poetical Excursion: Edna St. Vincent Millay and Beethoven

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Kelly Sedinger

I won’t post a poem each day of this National Poetry Month, but I’ll try to do so as often as I can! Here’s one I found in a collection of music poetry I have, which fits right in with … Continue reading →

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Kelly Sedinger

It’s well known that Beethoven write only a single opera, Fidelio. A bit less well known is that Beethoven also wrote a single ballet, The Creatures of Prometheus. In Beethoven’s time, ballet was seen mainly as a dance art, and … Continue reading →

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Beethoven: Two early works

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Kelly Sedinger

As I noted a while back (before The Virus took hold of our collective imaginations), I’m spending a lot of 2020 digging into the world of Ludwig van Beethoven. I’m currently reading a “life and works” book about him, and … Continue reading →

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Tone Poem Tuesday (Beethoven at 250)

Posted on March 3, 2020 by Kelly Sedinger

This year has all manner of potential to be…well, roughly on par with its several immediate predecessors, but let’s try not to focus on that entirely, OK? Let us instead focus occasionally, for the remainder of the year, on the … Continue reading →

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