A Friend of Beethoven, Now Rediscovered in His Own Right
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#2Reicha's musical ideas and experimentations were simply genius. He delved into advanced music theory like no other classic composer I know. While his music may sound a bit odd to people, it is theoretically sound and shows how vast and exciting music can really be.
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#3Pareto also operates in the context of posthumous fame.
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#4Some of Beethoven’s later piano sonatas get in pretty deep, too. I wonder who influenced whom. Also the article reminds us that when younger, Beethoven was a proficient violist. Bach, too, tripled on piano and multiple string instruments as long as he was alive.
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#5Some of Beethoven’s later piano sonatas get in pretty deep, too. I wonder who influenced whom. Also the article reminds us that when younger, Beethoven was a proficient violist. Bach, too, tripled on piano and multiple string instruments as long as he was alive.
I read at some point that LVB was a deist and a copy of the Enneads of Plotinus was found in his library after he died.
Just listened to some of this Reicha dude's stuff on Spotify and it is so similar to Beethoven thematically.
I wonder if they were both going for the same themes of ideal oneness vs. multiplicity, if they had shared approaches to exploring the space of musical theory in a neoplatonic way. Given LVB's love of wine I can only imagine they got pretty nerdy and unhinged.
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#6Some of Beethoven’s later piano sonatas get in pretty deep, too. I wonder who influenced whom. Also the article reminds us that when younger, Beethoven was a proficient violist. Bach, too, tripled on piano and multiple string instruments as long as he was alive.
Definitely the influence worked in both directions. Some comments by Ilić on that topic can be found in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2xC3UDeTYo
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#7Thanks for posting this, made a quick Reicha playlist on Apple Music and am beginning to work through it. Sounds interesting.
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#8Glad that he's finally getting some of recognition that he has been unfairly denied for centuries. There is extraordinary intelligence and personality behind his music. It's almost inexplicable that he doesn't get more attention. By far the most "underrated" composer that I am aware of.
Reicha's work proves that the style pioneered by Haydn was not only fundamentally sound, but capable of change and development far beyond what music scholars would typically have thought to have been possible. Music history, and perhaps world history would be very different if subsequent composers had continued along the path broken by Reicha rather than that taken by "The Romantic Generation".
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#9Some of Beethoven’s later piano sonatas get in pretty deep, too. I wonder who influenced whom. Also the article reminds us that when younger, Beethoven was a proficient violist. Bach, too, tripled on piano and multiple string instruments as long as he was alive.
Definitely the influence worked in both directions. Some comments by Ilić on that topic can be found in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2xC3UDeTYo
There goes my afternoon :)
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#10Funny to see this on HN, Ivan is a member here.