Links:
- Classical Compositions - MIDI sequences of Classical Music by some of the best sequencers on the new today.
(Added: 6-Apr-2002 Hits: 200)
- Music and Beethoven - Online classical radio station; site includes details of Beethoven's life.
(Added: 15-Feb-2002 Hits: 473)
- The Secrets of Beethoven's Sketchbooks - Until the distinguished concert pianist and Beethoven scholar Professor Denis Matthews made these recordings - now available on CD - only a handful of music scholars knew the secrets of the great composer's sketchbooks. The private notes Beethoven kept all his working life show the growth of each composition from initial idea through constant revision, bar by bar, until he achieved the 'spontaneous' finished work. ‘In his sketchbooks,’ said composer and critic Christopher Headington, ‘Beethoven jotted down musical notes as they occurred to him, or worked on existing ideas to get them into shape.’ ‘These admirable guides through the Sketchbooks are not merely of academic interest,’ wrote celebrated music critic Lionel Salter in 'The Music Teacher', ‘but are as illuminating as if Beethoven himself had written a textbook on the technique of composition.’
(Added: 6-Feb-2002 Hits: 437)
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