To all music lovers & musicians (like Messmaster himself): Happy Semiquincentennial Birthday, Big B!
Back in middle school, I read his biography (Beethoven's, not Messmaster's) One item stuck in my head: Beethoven angrily threw a bowl of liver puree at a waiter. Beethoven's rage turned to laughter as, I recall the book said, the liver ran down the poor waiter's head.
Ok.. I know...that's WRONG to do, today as well as 250 years ago. That was not the worst thing Beethoven did. He was a real bastard to his ex-sister-in-law, trying to take away her son, Beethoven's nephew, on some morals ground. But, apparently, according to the fictional movie, "Dearly Beloved", writing something like his 9th Symphony gets you forgiven for your sins.
So even big B had the wammer spirit (though without our current morals) in him. The book may even have exaggerated or my memory (most likely, 44 years later) is faulty.
Ok, MM. You can delete this post after the 16th of December.
Zoidbergs Evil Twin said: To all music lovers & musicians (like Messmaster himself): Happy Semiquincentennial Birthday, Big B!
Back in middle school, I read his biography (Beethoven's, not Messmaster's) One item stuck in my head: Beethoven angrily threw a bowl of liver puree at a waiter. Beethoven's rage turned to laughter as, I recall the book said, the liver ran down the poor waiter's head.
Ok.. I know...that's WRONG to do, today as well as 250 years ago. That was not the worst thing Beethoven did. He was a real bastard to his ex-sister-in-law, trying to take away her son, Beethoven's nephew, on some morals ground. But, apparently, according to the fictional movie, "Dearly Beloved", writing something like his 9th Symphony gets you forgiven for your sins.
So even big B had the wammer spirit (though without our current morals) in him. The book may even have exaggerated or my memory (most likely, 44 years later) is faulty.
Ok, MM. You can delete this post after the 16th of December.
Ludwig flan Beethoven actually wrote a number of WAM-inspired works, but had to hide them using cryptic titles. There's the Piestoral Symphony, which even includes a pause after the first few bars to allow the conductor to throw one at a random member of the orchestra (or vice versa); and its forerunner the 'Apiessionata' sonata for piano; the 'Archgloop' trio; the Missa Solemnis where the pies don't hit the target; and the words to the famous Ode to Joy: 'Freude schoener gunge her funken!'
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