I fell in love with Beethoven’s music as a young boy-it spoke to my heart in a way I couldn’t explain. To this day I still lose myself in his music-the greatest composer of all time!
I've tried to get into him and the other greats, but just can't do it. I do appreciate them tho for what they did for music and respect their genius. I'm actually envious of people who do "get it", cuz I bet it's amazing to get enjoyment out of it.
A visitor to the earth from beyond the stars, sent as a gift from God. The second movement of Symphony #4, for example, was not the utterance of a human being.
@@felixlehwalder2758 Thank you. I love the work of many composers, particularly Gustav Mahler, but I never thought of music as something finished. And it's all about what speaks to you. Symphonic music is nearly the reanimation of another soul and the very act of creating the music fills me with awe. I hope music on this level continues to be created as long as humans are 😌
What a superb documentary. Perhaps some people believe that Beethoven is from a different age and old fashioned. But like other great composer's music, it endures, and will do so forever.
Well, Beethoven is from a different age and his ideals reflect this, but I doubt his music will become irrelevant any time soon and neither will his influence.
Since I was a kid (many many moons ago) I have been telling all people around me about who Beethoven was and what he created, and believe it or not many looked at me as if I was mentally disturbed. I am still learning Beethoven and he still amazes with all he created in his life. We all need a god in our lives, he is mine.
He has become my musical god, as well! Never mind the skeptics, if you can inspire even one person to experience Beethoven for themselves, your enthusiasm for LvB will have been worth the effort. 🎶💕
Thank you, DW and Sarah Willis, for this wonderful, thought-provoking doc about Beethoven and his influence on so many aspects of music, and life in general. I've been having a love affair of sorts with LvB for the past several years, and the more I learn about him and his music, the more amazed I am! Sometimes I think he represents some of Mankind's highest achievement.
Informative and entertaining documentary about the greatest composer of all time. I have been enjoying his music fo over six decades now. I never, ever tire of it.
The idea that these metal songs are in some way comparable to Beethoven's 5th symphony is ludicrous. It's not the theme, it's what is done with the theme that matters. The rock bands here mentioned take a simple theme, parade themselves in tight clothes and pomposity, and do nothing musical, while Beethoven takes a simple theme and uses it as a launchpad for deep exploration of musical and spiritual space.
Since being “run over” by the Eroica Symphony some 60 years ago, not a day has gone by I haven’t thought about, and been inspired by the music of Beethoven. One of the most extraordinary and influential human beings to have ever walked the planet. Music is a drug (and Beethoven’s my pusher.) Thanks to all concerned for a fascinating and informative film. Music is truly, “A higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy” (Beethoven)
I’m glad you liked it. Without doubt, his music is the ultimate panacea and pick-me-up for millions. The great mystery, is that no one can explain how, or why it works. We are just grateful that it does, and that we discovered it.
He was able to put his feelings, good and bad, into musical forms that everyone can relate to because we feel the same emotions. I was reminded of my youth when you showed the Kinks and Stones but had never realized how Beethoven influenced them but somehow I always knew that if he could come back to life today that within a year or so no one else would be able to compete with him in composing any form of music.
Beethoven achieves immortality through his great music. He had a difficult life: a drunken, abusive father; death of four of his siblings; the child prodigy and composer; being the bread winner for the family at the age of just 18; court musician in Bonn; going to Vienna to further his career; the mood swings and depression; the custody battle over his nephew; the deafness which took hold whilst he was still young; denying himself a long term loving relationship in order to dedicate himself to his music; the political upheavals including the siege on Vienna. Through all this adversity he composed some of the greatest music the world has known. I love Mozart too, but you often feel that Mozart's genius level was such that it all came so easily to him; Beethoven had to struggle and work at it, eg the various revisions over the years to Fidelio, his only opera. He also left his body to science, and had a great sense of humour, even though the deafness made him seem socially awkward and lost in a world of his own. Everyone in the world should get to know Ludwig van Beethoven's music. My favourites include symphonies 1, 3, 5,,6,7 and 9; the piano sonatas, especially the later ones; the songs; the late string quartets. The world would be a better place if more people got to hear Beethoven's great music.
He is my lifeline. Without him, my life is unimaginable like the whole world. I do not know and understand why people feel boring when they listen to classical music.
This was fantastic. I recently got into his music, coincidentally the 250th anniversary. It was really special watching this production. Well done. Made me feel connected to so many other fans even though most of my peers find it boring music. They couldn't be more wrong!
The Fifth Symphony is not "one of the most famous music pieces" in music history. Beethoven was, still is, forever will, be one of the few unchallenged and invictus genius Mankind has gave raise to. The Fifth is not only a "piece of music"... The Fifth Symphony graces each listener with the most powerful description of the inevitability of the Universe, like a road that builds itself while it progresses forward, the feeling of which is what the word "AWE" was invented for... Thank you for this service, it is highly appreciated.
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About the last scene - Beethoven is present in everything. Even those who have never heard before feels unconsciously his presence in current music. Therefore, it becomes really unimaginable. Beautiful doc. Thanks DW.
Once someone asked Beethoven whom he admired as a great composer and he said: I consider Handel to be the greatest composer to have lived. What a modesty of the great composer
This is the MOST beautiful documentary I've ever seen. Perfectly done and match, every part is perfect like a... Beethoven score. Greetings from Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Excellent presentation.Thanks to DW and sarah willis for this video.Beethoven is universal. He may be born in Germany but he crossed all the boarders with his unbelievable talent of music.He touched very nice Indian Raga a few measures in Symphony no 2 third movement.I bought Air tickets to Bonn this year in the month of May to go to his house and some parts of Austria. Unfortunnately this CORONA Virus spoiled the whole world.Anyway we have to move on and on.Regards from India.
a world without him maybe nothing would be the same and I never want to live in such a world without Beethoven as I always wish to meet him after life, thats all...
I was not expecting such a great outlook on Beethoven, I knew there was more to the music & a connection but this has open my eyes to the true connection of music, the greatest language in the world. I have a tiny Beethoven bust, he's the greatest rock star ever.
I went to a talk by Jonathan Biss at the Wigmore Hall and one thing has always stayed with me. He said that of course Beethoven was not influenced by anything anybody else was composing because he could not hear anything. So all his inspiration came from within him and only him !! What a musical mind !!!
But, but, Beethoven didn't go deaf until he was in his 40s (around 1814). I'm sure he was influenced by plenty before then. Definitely by Mozart, Bach, and Haydn, for three.
As a fan of Beethoven, to say that there would not be rock music without Beethoven us frankly ridiculous. A riff is different from the way Beethoven uses his motives. He developed his music using continuous development of motives. Beethoven hugely influenced western music, but Western Africa had more of an influence on rock. Don’t try to pretend that Europeans invented the riff. It’s been present in west African music for hundreds of years. This documentary is a missed opportunity to show Beethoven’s huge impact on western culture, which cannot be denied.
The supposed influence on rock music is an attempt to drag Beethoven into popular culture. Beethoven Bach Mozart and Handel are the very soul of Western culture perhaps world culture there music will prevail when all else is but a dim memory.
Beethoven scaled the heights and in so doing set a benchmark opus 132 after that all was downhill..Here is an apt comment referring to the Borodin String Quartet's recording : Eduardo Guerra Ávila 2 years ago This string quartet touches other dimensions, a place beyond any other Human work can achieve. The deepness of the spiritual content of this work (specially on the ultra serene adagio) rises to levels that no other art is even close to. Even a non-believer like me feels the presence of a divinity here and makes me feel I have entered a sacred place. Beethoven accomplished in this world a mission that we are not yet come close to discover at all his greatness.
Great program but I have to stop right here and say that my mind is completely blown that Beethoven was instrumental in popularizing the metronome! That is just fascinating - I certainly can't imagine practice without one - even if it is usually my phone these days. I think we need to see a whole show about Beethoven and his co-author in that article - Anton Salieri!
"He saw himself as on the same level and the sculptors, painters, and artists of his day." As someone loving all art, I find this amusing, as he is arguably more exalted than most of those artists in those other realms: a Titanic figure with massive influence, as shown here so beautifully.
Hi and best wishes from Normandie, France. I watched the doc video with great interest. I also can't imagine my life without Beethoven and other great composers . But I want to add Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov to your list. OUR LIFE WOULD BE UNBEARABLE WITHOUT MUSIC.
Very interesting documentary. I agree with you: a world without Beethoven, impossible! On the contrary, I don't agree with Marsalis: even if many people don't know B., they have surely heard his music, but they don't simply recognized it
Growing of age in the 1950’s/1960’s one of the most popular newspaper comic cartoons was Charles Schultz’s “Peanuts “. The character Schroeder was a pianist obsessed with Beethoven. A few decades later I understand why😁
Beethoven not only changed music he resurrected IT from mere abstraction to emotionally❤️🔥passionate compositions breaking up the ground of consciousness from abstract rules to the Super🎺, 🦸Uber, Sound🎸of🎹Rockin💎Jewels!🥁🎻
Not "rock", heavy metal is a better choice. Many of the metal musicians were heavily influenced by classical music; take Wagner as an example, it's technical death metal before electricity.
It was because of Beethoven that the world was spared antihalation in the 1990"s . You see , the first TV transmissions of the Berlin Olympics in 1936 reached the Galactic Zorg department responsible with the "clean up" of undesirable civilisations in the galaxy in 1966 (speed of light and all that). They considered the content and "clean up" was indeed required , however, the inclusion of Beethoven's 9 th gave them pause . They took it to a vote , and the outcome was 51 to 49 , to allow the civilisation to continue . Since then , Beethoven's 9th has been adopted as the galactic anthem of the Zorg .
When I was a little boy, Way back home in Bonn My mama told me, I was great. Then when I was a teenager, I knew that I had got something going, All my friends told me I was great. And now I'm a man, A woman took me by the hand, And you know what she told me...i was great.
Very much so. For me, one of the ways I evaluate conductors is on their ability to conduct a Haydn Symphony. If you can do that well, you definitely have talent.
It has taken me fifty years to truly recognize the enormous achievement of Franz Joseph Haydn. In my case it was listening to the chamber music, particularly the string quartets and piano trios that convinced me.
Classical musician hero worship is pointless, many contributed to the lexicon, obviously none can doubt Beethoven, but no one likes to mention people like John Field or Clementi etc
Actually, the repetitive motif referred to in this video can be heard in its rawest form throughout the first movement of Mozart's 25th Piano Concerto. Beethoven probably took inspiration from there.
The size of a Compact disc (12cm) was dictated that it should hold the full Beethoven 9th . Philips planned on having an 11.5cm diameter CD while Sony planned on 10cm. Consensus was reached when they agreed that one CD ought to have the capacity to contain a complete performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This requires a 12cm diameter disc, the eventual standardised size of a CD.
1:01:00 not even using a shoulder rest. How the heck does she even plays so good like that? 🤨🤔 Super great documentary. Thank you so much for sharing this with us all. 😌🙌🏻✌🏻👍🏻🤗💜
An timely Video given the recent moves to represent and cancel Beethoven totally as a repressive white icon of Western Culture, on the one hand , and the ludicrous claims to appropriate Beethoven as a Black musician whose true racial identity was hidden by racists Western Historians. Which ever way you look at it, Beethoven was and remains a civilizing figure and Saint of Western and world Culture regardless of his "race". His work is an example of the very best that humanity can achieve. God bless his life and my parents for having exposed me to the wonders of his works...I would have despaired many times throughout my life without his Music!!!!
A great documentary with right concept analyzing different aspects of Beetoven's music and explains them with the well chosen examples. - Greetings, Heinz
I consider Beethoven the best composer of all-time. But before Beethoven, Vivaldi created his Four Seasons concertos where each one has an associated poem and you see how the music goes with each of the verses. If this is not program music, what is it? Actually the Baroque is known for program/descriptive music. Classical period started the trend of absolute/abstract music. So saying that Beethoven was the pioneer of program music seems incorrect, to me.
Beethoven's music became more romantic as he grew older. I am a baroque and classical fan, and don't care much for the romantics, though do appreciate their compositions. Ironically, I love the romantic Beethoven, perhaps it is because I feel the classical elements in his compositions.
@@julieconnard4372 I think you are right. His quartet the grosse fuge op 133 is a 'screech' but I really enjoy it. There is a dimension that floats above the music itself.
My twin brother was stationed in Germany while in the US Military and visited Beethoven's home where he learned that his mother was of AFRICAN decent and that she taught his father "12 Tone Music" and this is reason why Beethoven's music is so different and great because Europeans had never heard that wonderful sound before. This was explained to him by the (German people) who worked at his home and it is also documented.but Mis Educated Americans and others need to lthis learn this truth and remove the lies about this brown man, not at all white like paining that we see today.
Of the 7 billion people in the world the great majority are probably largely if not totally unaffected by Bach, Beethoven etc - and they seem to get on just fine! Classical music is one of my great loves but I do realise that it is very much a minority interest.
@@adrianwright8685 You are so right! I 2007 I was teaching an adult class (Toronto, GTA). The day Pavarotti died was a sad day for me, so they asked me. I told them I am sad Pavarotti had died, but I was shocked realizing nobody had any idea who the hack was that guy. It was one Polish lady who knew, and told the rest: he was that fat guy singing opera. Ohh, but they had no idea.
I'd probably put Beethoven as the greatest composer ever simply on the sheer output of masterpieces he composed. Being an amateur piano player, Chopin is obviously my favorite composer ever!! He revolutionized piano repertoire and how the piano should be played and approached. I mean of course there's our beloved Mozart who played his incredibly important roll in showing how melodic & lyrical the piano could and should be with all his genius, and beautifully simplistic compositions that he poured out over his short lifetime. Chopin gets knocked for his lack of symphonies, operas, orchestral works(besides his 2 beautiful Piano Concertos of course!!). But Chopin knew his strengths, and with the innovations happening to the Piano in his day, he discovered how to make the piano sing by composing the most beautiful melodies and harmonies that the Piano could produce. He took etudes from dull systematic studies, to beautiful lyrical pieces of music. Created new forms of musical repertoire for the piano, the Ballad & Polonaise, Perfected the Nocturne, became king of the Waltz, said more in a 2 minute Prelude than most could say in an 11min Sonata, and was so far ahead of his time in his beautiful Mazurkas that were dabbling in atonality(as well as the 4th movement of his funeral March Sonata in B minor), something that wouldn't be explored and accepted for another 80 years. No composer ever had as big of an impact on a specific instrument as Chopin did with the piano. Like Debussy said, "Chopin was the greatest of all...for with the piano alone, he discovered everything."
Very interesting. I think Vivaldi's Four Seasons was composed before Beethoven's 6th symphony as a program work, actually... The best comment on Beethoven's place among the other top composers that I've heard is that he's a giant among giants. Says it for me.
Beethoven's music is a prime example of doing gradiouse thing with less, testament to his famous 5th symphony. If Im tasked to find a national anthem for the planet Earth to represent her in the cosmos, Beethoven music is the first candidate.
Hi Sarah hope you read this. I think it would be great if you make a video with Rick Beato who know quite a lot about music from both side of the fences just like you. I´m sure it will be dynamite!!!
He didn't composed music for the masses he wanted to put a voice to his darken soul, yes he was dark. I believe that he was the original rock star and creator.
I fell in love with Beethoven’s music as a young boy-it spoke to my heart in a way I couldn’t explain. To this day I still lose myself in his music-the greatest composer of all time!
Very Well said
Yes me too 💞
I TOTALLY AGREE
Beethoven is GOD!
I've tried to get into him and the other greats, but just can't do it. I do appreciate them tho for what they did for music and respect their genius. I'm actually envious of people who do "get it", cuz I bet it's amazing to get enjoyment out of it.
A visitor to the earth from beyond the stars, sent as a gift from God. The second movement of Symphony #4, for example, was not the utterance of a human being.
Beethoven is the greatest composer of all-time
No doubt
@@felixlehwalder2758 Amen 💞
No. There's no such thing as all time has not yet happened as people continue to compose music.
@@BlueBaron3339 From this point of view....ok
@@felixlehwalder2758 Thank you. I love the work of many composers, particularly Gustav Mahler, but I never thought of music as something finished. And it's all about what speaks to you. Symphonic music is nearly the reanimation of another soul and the very act of creating the music fills me with awe. I hope music on this level continues to be created as long as humans are 😌
What a superb documentary. Perhaps some people believe that Beethoven is from a different age and old fashioned. But like other great composer's music, it endures, and will do so forever.
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Then what composer from that era wrote music that isn't old fashioned?
Well, Beethoven is from a different age and his ideals reflect this, but I doubt his music will become irrelevant any time soon and neither will his influence.
Beethoven is my favorite composer, his spirit lives on through his music 🎶
Since I was a kid (many many moons ago) I have been telling all people around me about who Beethoven was and what he created, and believe it or not many looked at me as if I was mentally disturbed. I am still learning Beethoven and he still amazes with all he created in his life. We all need a god in our lives, he is mine.
He has become my musical god, as well! Never mind the skeptics, if you can inspire even one person to experience Beethoven for themselves, your enthusiasm for LvB will have been worth the effort. 🎶💕
a great figure in history and an inspiration to all who know him!
Mine too, Babak.
Thank you, DW and Sarah Willis, for this wonderful, thought-provoking doc about Beethoven and his influence on so many aspects of music, and life in general. I've been having a love affair of sorts with LvB for the past several years, and the more I learn about him and his music, the more amazed I am! Sometimes I think he represents some of Mankind's highest achievement.
Informative and entertaining documentary about the greatest composer of all time. I have been enjoying his music fo over six decades now. I never, ever tire of it.
I loved Ian Anderson saying he pictures Beethoven riding around on a motorcycle! I want a T-shirt with that image on it!!
The idea that these metal songs are in some way comparable to Beethoven's 5th symphony is ludicrous. It's not the theme, it's what is done with the theme that matters. The rock bands here mentioned take a simple theme, parade themselves in tight clothes and pomposity, and do nothing musical, while Beethoven takes a simple theme and uses it as a launchpad for deep exploration of musical and spiritual space.
Delsin the members of these heavy metal groups are not good enough to empty Beethovens chamber pot ! His music is light years ahead of there's.
Since being “run over” by the Eroica Symphony some 60 years ago, not a day has gone by I haven’t thought about, and been inspired by the music of Beethoven. One of the most extraordinary and influential human beings to have ever walked the planet. Music is a drug (and Beethoven’s my pusher.) Thanks to all concerned for a fascinating and informative film. Music is truly, “A higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy” (Beethoven)
I LOVE "Music is a drug (and Beethoven's my pusher)". I feel the same way!
I’m glad you liked it. Without doubt, his music is the ultimate panacea and pick-me-up for millions. The great mystery, is that no one can explain how, or why it works. We are just grateful that it does, and that we discovered it.
"...run over by the Eroica Symphony..."
Yup, that's exactly what it's like when you first get Beethoven.
Glad I’m not alone ! It makes you wonder just how many of us have been involved in this life changing experience. Ludwig has a lot to answer for !
I love eroica.
He was able to put his feelings, good and bad, into musical forms that everyone can relate to because we feel the same emotions. I was reminded of my youth when you showed the Kinks and Stones but had never realized how Beethoven influenced them but somehow I always knew that if he could come back to life today that within a year or so no one else would be able to compete with him in composing any form of music.
A fantastic documentary about modernity of Beethoven! Well done Sarah!
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Beethoven achieves immortality through his great music. He had a difficult life: a drunken, abusive father; death of four of his siblings; the child prodigy and composer; being the bread winner for the family at the age of just 18; court musician in Bonn; going to Vienna to further his career; the mood swings and depression; the custody battle over his nephew; the deafness which took hold whilst he was still young; denying himself a long term loving relationship in order to dedicate himself to his music; the political upheavals including the siege on Vienna. Through all this adversity he composed some of the greatest music the world has known. I love Mozart too, but you often feel that Mozart's genius level was such that it all came so easily to him; Beethoven had to struggle and work at it, eg the various revisions over the years to Fidelio, his only opera. He also left his body to science, and had a great sense of humour, even though the deafness made him seem socially awkward and lost in a world of his own. Everyone in the world should get to know Ludwig van Beethoven's music. My favourites include symphonies 1, 3, 5,,6,7 and 9; the piano sonatas, especially the later ones; the songs; the late string quartets. The world would be a better place if more people got to hear Beethoven's great music.
I have loved Beethoven the man and the music my whole life. Love seeing other folks who admire him.
Simply the best
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He is my lifeline. Without him, my life is unimaginable like the whole world.
I do not know and understand why people feel boring when they listen to classical music.
@@anenglishmanplusamerican7107 Gustav Holst, Henry Purcell, Vivaldi z Mussorgsky?
This was fantastic. I recently got into his music, coincidentally the 250th anniversary. It was really special watching this production. Well done. Made me feel connected to so many other fans even though most of my peers find it boring music. They couldn't be more wrong!
The Fifth Symphony is not "one of the most famous music pieces" in music history.
Beethoven was, still is, forever will, be one of the few unchallenged and invictus genius Mankind has gave raise to.
The Fifth is not only a "piece of music"... The Fifth Symphony graces each listener with the most powerful description of the inevitability of the Universe, like a road that builds itself while it progresses forward, the feeling of which is what the word "AWE" was invented for...
Thank you for this service, it is highly appreciated.
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Very beautifully said, Antonio.
About the last scene - Beethoven is present in everything. Even those who have never heard before feels unconsciously his presence in current music. Therefore, it becomes really unimaginable.
Beautiful doc. Thanks DW.
I like his systematic approach to music. He's changed a lot of things forever. Great documentary!
Sarah Willis what a multifaceted person! 💙
Once someone asked Beethoven whom he admired as a great composer and he said: I consider Handel to be the greatest composer to have lived. What a modesty of the great composer
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven..the miracles of humanity for music
Absolutely agree 💜💜💜
And all German/Germanic :-( :-)
@@michaeltroke7239 it’s true
And Verdi I would say
@@perotolic2217 and Schumann and Schubert 💜
Thanks DW and Sarah Willis for this entertaining documentary. Sarah rightly said towards the end: "...his innovations and ideas are everywhere".
What I have liked most about this documentary is establishing influence of Beethoven on contemporary music
We are glad you liked it! 😊
This was a very well produced documentary. Sarah Willis is a true gem.
This is the MOST beautiful documentary I've ever seen. Perfectly done and match, every part is perfect like a... Beethoven score. Greetings from Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Thank you Sarah Willis...great documentary...
Thank you! No matter what colour we are - we feel the same internal vibrations!
Watching this for school but I have to say, I really enjoyed this!
Without Beethoven my life is unimaginable.
Excellent presentation.Thanks to DW and sarah willis for this video.Beethoven is universal. He may be born in Germany but he crossed all the boarders with his unbelievable talent of music.He touched very nice Indian Raga a few measures in Symphony no 2 third movement.I bought Air tickets to Bonn this year in the month of May to go to his house and some parts of Austria. Unfortunnately this CORONA Virus spoiled the whole world.Anyway we have to move on and on.Regards from India.
What Corona virus its NOT the plague
He was born Bon Germany 🇩🇪
May Beethoven live forever!!!!! What a wonderful documentary (Thank you Sarah and everyone)! Love John Williams. THANK YOU SO MUCH FROM BRAZIL!
I don’t think the music of today would be possible without Beethoven. One can even talk about music before and after Beethoven.
I saw it yesterday on DW-TV but am sooo happy to found it today on youtube. Really, many, many thanks to DW for upload it so fast for us!
What a documentary!!! Viele danke!!!
a world without him maybe nothing would be the same and I never want to live in such a world without Beethoven as I always wish to meet him after life, thats all...
I don't need crappy popular music to justify my fondness for Beethoven's genius.
I was not expecting such a great outlook on Beethoven, I knew there was more to the music & a connection but this has open my eyes to the true connection of music, the greatest language in the world. I have a tiny Beethoven bust, he's the greatest rock star ever.
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I went to a talk by Jonathan Biss at the Wigmore Hall and one thing has always stayed with me. He said that of course Beethoven was not influenced by anything anybody else was composing because he could not hear anything. So all his inspiration came from within him and only him !! What a musical mind !!!
But, but, Beethoven didn't go deaf until he was in his 40s (around 1814). I'm sure he was influenced by plenty before then. Definitely by Mozart, Bach, and Haydn, for three.
@@michellsmorgcycle4161 you are right
@@michellsmorgcycle4161 and many others as well.
As a fan of Beethoven, to say that there would not be rock music without Beethoven us frankly ridiculous. A riff is different from the way Beethoven uses his motives. He developed his music using continuous development of motives. Beethoven hugely influenced western music, but Western Africa had more of an influence on rock. Don’t try to pretend that Europeans invented the riff. It’s been present in west African music for hundreds of years. This documentary is a missed opportunity to show Beethoven’s huge impact on western culture, which cannot be denied.
TOTALLY agree, and I'm a Beethoven fanatic haha
Agree. The documentary is not as good as I expect.
I don’t think that is what it was stated. The documentary is filled with examples of how he influenced western culture in different ways.
The supposed influence on rock music is an attempt to drag Beethoven into popular culture. Beethoven Bach Mozart and Handel are the very soul of Western culture perhaps world culture there music will prevail when all else is but a dim memory.
Beethoven scaled the heights and in so doing set a benchmark opus 132 after that all was downhill..Here is an apt comment referring to the Borodin String Quartet's recording :
Eduardo Guerra Ávila
2 years ago
This string quartet touches other dimensions, a place beyond any other Human work can achieve.
The deepness of the spiritual content of this work (specially on the ultra serene adagio) rises to levels that no other art is even close to.
Even a non-believer like me feels the presence of a divinity here and makes me feel I have entered a sacred place.
Beethoven accomplished in this world a mission that we are not yet come close to discover at all his greatness.
Very interesting documentary about the importance of Beethoven. As a great Beethoven fan I loved to watch it.
Great program but I have to stop right here and say that my mind is completely blown that Beethoven was instrumental in popularizing the metronome! That is just fascinating - I certainly can't imagine practice without one - even if it is usually my phone these days. I think we need to see a whole show about Beethoven and his co-author in that article - Anton Salieri!
"He saw himself as on the same level and the sculptors, painters, and artists of his day." As someone loving all art, I find this amusing, as he is arguably more exalted than most of those artists in those other realms: a Titanic figure with massive influence, as shown here so beautifully.
Rudolf Schenker, casually sitting next to one of the most sought-after and expensive instruments in history, the Yamaha CS-80 😳
Hi and best wishes from Normandie, France. I watched the doc video with great interest. I also can't imagine my life without Beethoven and other great composers . But I want to add Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov to your list. OUR LIFE WOULD BE UNBEARABLE WITHOUT MUSIC.
Very interesting documentary. I agree with you: a world without Beethoven, impossible! On the contrary, I don't agree with Marsalis: even if many people don't know B., they have surely heard his music, but they don't simply recognized it
My fav composer and incomparable even by other standards. I feel like people know him but don't really appreciate him.
Thanks for this great work, Sarah (and all others who helped to put this great doc together) - you're a wonderful ambassador for music!
Nice documentary DW/Sarah. Hopefully will bring more people from different musical cultures into the world of Beethoven
Oh yezzzzzz, fans, learning from Beethoven how to pull out the genius nature is never enough, he is a never ending inspiration fans
Now that is a world that I would not want to live in! Bethoven is the most wonderful human being!
Growing of age in the 1950’s/1960’s one of the most popular newspaper comic cartoons was Charles Schultz’s “Peanuts “. The character Schroeder was a pianist obsessed with Beethoven. A few decades later I understand why😁
Absolutely gorgeous. Magnificent. Thanks for this. Regards, from Chile.
Dumb question but any excuse to listen to Beethoven is a good one. Thanks!
Absolutely brilliant doco, great presenter. Thanks for posting.
Beethoven not only changed music he resurrected IT from mere abstraction to emotionally❤️🔥passionate compositions breaking up the ground of consciousness from abstract rules to the Super🎺, 🦸Uber, Sound🎸of🎹Rockin💎Jewels!🥁🎻
Not without vices, but great work and a unique look at the greatest of them all. Thanks
Thank you for spending time on Beethoveen's First Symphony. Not usually profiled. Bravo!
Beethoven was the very first composer I had ever known when I was five. Since then he has been with me for almost seven decades
Aunque lo entiendo en su mayoría, pero me encantaría compartirlo con las personas que no entienden el idioma inglés. Muchas gracias. Bravo!!!
This is the type of content, that I throw any TV set out of the window for- Thanks great lecture.
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I understand this is a popularizing doc, but the 5th symphony is not just 4 notes. And the connection between Beethoven and rock is a bit too much
Not "rock", heavy metal is a better choice.
Many of the metal musicians were heavily influenced by classical music; take Wagner as an example, it's technical death metal before electricity.
Why all this preoccupation with Beethoven’s symphonies? His 32 piano sonatas are his grand masterpieces.
For me as well, Justice.
It was because of Beethoven that the world was spared antihalation in the 1990"s . You see , the first TV transmissions of the Berlin Olympics in 1936 reached the Galactic Zorg department responsible with the "clean up" of undesirable civilisations in the galaxy in 1966 (speed of light and all that). They considered the content and "clean up" was indeed required , however, the inclusion of Beethoven's 9 th gave them pause . They took it to a vote , and the outcome was 51 to 49 , to allow the civilisation to continue . Since then , Beethoven's 9th has been adopted as the galactic anthem of the Zorg .
Brilliantly thought out documentary, inspiring in all aspects! (Now I will think of Beethoven when I bump into a motorcyclist!) Kudos!!!
When I was a little boy,
Way back home in Bonn
My mama told me, I was great.
Then when I was a teenager,
I knew that I had got something going,
All my friends told me I was great.
And now I'm a man,
A woman took me by the hand,
And you know what she told me...i was great.
Thank you for this magnificent documentary.
Most of the ideas in Beethoven's symphonies had been done before by Joseph Haydn. But in a much gentler way. Haydn is greatly underrated.
Excuse me, what do you exactly with the ideas?
Very much so. For me, one of the ways I evaluate conductors is on their ability to conduct a Haydn Symphony. If you can do that well, you definitely have talent.
It has taken me fifty years to truly recognize the enormous achievement of Franz Joseph Haydn. In my case it was listening to the chamber music, particularly the string quartets and piano trios that convinced me.
Classical musician hero worship is pointless, many contributed to the lexicon, obviously none can doubt Beethoven, but no one likes to mention people like John Field or Clementi etc
Papa Haydn!
Actually, the repetitive motif referred to in this video can be heard in its rawest form throughout the first movement of Mozart's 25th Piano Concerto. Beethoven probably took inspiration from there.
The size of a Compact disc (12cm) was dictated that it should hold the full Beethoven 9th .
Philips planned on having an 11.5cm diameter CD while Sony planned on 10cm. Consensus was reached when they agreed that one CD ought to have the capacity to contain a complete performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. This requires a 12cm diameter disc, the eventual standardised size of a CD.
Classical music is incomparable to Rock muisc because it's aesthetic , profound and has spiritual substance!
Without Beethoven, artists wouldn't compose simple melodies. Got it.
1:01:00 not even using a shoulder rest. How the heck does she even plays so good like that? 🤨🤔
Super great documentary. Thank you so much for sharing this with us all. 😌🙌🏻✌🏻👍🏻🤗💜
With Mutter, it's the violin that gets tired and needs a rest. :)
An timely Video given the recent moves to represent and cancel Beethoven totally as a repressive white icon of Western Culture, on the one hand , and the ludicrous claims to appropriate Beethoven as a Black musician whose true racial identity was hidden by racists Western Historians.
Which ever way you look at it, Beethoven was and remains a civilizing figure and Saint of Western and world Culture regardless of his "race". His work is an example of the very best that humanity can achieve. God bless his life and my parents for having exposed me to the wonders of his works...I would have despaired many times throughout my life without his Music!!!!
USA woke mob comes up with this nonsense
Beethoven is worldwide
A great documentary with right concept analyzing different aspects of Beetoven's music and explains them with the well chosen examples. - Greetings, Heinz
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN !!!!!!!THE REBEL MAGNIFICENTE IN HISTORY MUSIC!!!!!!!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Rock music actually started earlier with BACH.
I mean I've already found some Jazz harmony/rhythms in Bach...
Electric guitar 1931 saxophone late 1800s or early 1900
Wonderful documentary, congratulations and thanks a lot!
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Sarah, I love this video, Thank You💙💙💙
I consider Beethoven the best composer of all-time. But before Beethoven, Vivaldi created his Four Seasons concertos where each one has an associated poem and you see how the music goes with each of the verses. If this is not program music, what is it? Actually the Baroque is known for program/descriptive music. Classical period started the trend of absolute/abstract music. So saying that Beethoven was the pioneer of program music seems incorrect, to me.
Beethoven's music became more romantic as he grew older. I am a baroque and classical fan, and don't care much for the romantics, though do appreciate their compositions. Ironically, I love the romantic Beethoven, perhaps it is because I feel the classical elements in his compositions.
@@malcolmabram2957, could it also be because the content of Beethoven's romantic music speaks universally and transcends the music itself?
@@julieconnard4372 I think you are right. His quartet the grosse fuge op 133 is a 'screech' but I really enjoy it. There is a dimension that floats above the music itself.
@@malcolmabram2957, that's beautifully said.
The first rock star Beethoven said I am good, cocky and Charismatic🤘
Bravo Sarah!!!
My twin brother was stationed in Germany while in the US Military and visited Beethoven's home where he learned that his mother was of AFRICAN decent and that she taught his father "12 Tone Music" and this is reason why Beethoven's music is so different and great because Europeans had never heard that wonderful sound before. This was explained to him by the (German people) who worked at his home and it is also documented.but Mis Educated Americans and others need to lthis learn this truth and remove the lies about this brown man, not at all white like paining that we see today.
A world without Bach, or Mozart, or Verdi, or Wagner and the list goes on. Beethoven was amazing, but he was not alone.
I will add Vivaldi ☺️
@@derbywinner6316 With all my heart! I love Vivaldi. OTOW, Happy new year!
Of the 7 billion people in the world the great majority are probably largely if not totally unaffected by Bach, Beethoven etc - and they seem to get on just fine! Classical music is one of my great loves but I do realise that it is very much a minority interest.
@@adrianwright8685 You are so right! I 2007 I was teaching an adult class (Toronto, GTA). The day Pavarotti died was a sad day for me, so they asked me. I told them I am sad Pavarotti had died, but I was shocked realizing nobody had any idea who the hack was that guy. It was one Polish lady who knew, and told the rest: he was that fat guy singing opera. Ohh, but they had no idea.
I'd probably put Beethoven as the greatest composer ever simply on the sheer output of masterpieces he composed. Being an amateur piano player, Chopin is obviously my favorite composer ever!! He revolutionized piano repertoire and how the piano should be played and approached. I mean of course there's our beloved Mozart who played his incredibly important roll in showing how melodic & lyrical the piano could and should be with all his genius, and beautifully simplistic compositions that he poured out over his short lifetime. Chopin gets knocked for his lack of symphonies, operas, orchestral works(besides his 2 beautiful Piano Concertos of course!!). But Chopin knew his strengths, and with the innovations happening to the Piano in his day, he discovered how to make the piano sing by composing the most beautiful melodies and harmonies that the Piano could produce. He took etudes from dull systematic studies, to beautiful lyrical pieces of music. Created new forms of musical repertoire for the piano, the Ballad & Polonaise, Perfected the Nocturne, became king of the Waltz, said more in a 2 minute Prelude than most could say in an 11min Sonata, and was so far ahead of his time in his beautiful Mazurkas that were dabbling in atonality(as well as the 4th movement of his funeral March Sonata in B minor), something that wouldn't be explored and accepted for another 80 years. No composer ever had as big of an impact on a specific instrument as Chopin did with the piano. Like Debussy said, "Chopin was the greatest of all...for with the piano alone, he discovered everything."
FANTASTIC DOCUMENTARY. VAN DYKE PARKS THE CHERRY ON TOP!
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Beethoven's late quartets are my inspirations and I am a creator of EDM/electronic music.
BRAVO, Sarah!!
Simply fantastic!!!
Beethoven would insist that the EU find another anthem. The 9th is for peace loving people, not murderous tyrants.
Very interesting. I think Vivaldi's Four Seasons was composed before Beethoven's 6th symphony as a program work, actually... The best comment on Beethoven's place among the other top composers that I've heard is that he's a giant among giants. Says it for me.
Absolutely, Vivaldi must be the father of program music.
Beethoven's music is a prime example of doing gradiouse thing with less, testament to his famous 5th symphony. If Im tasked to find a national anthem for the planet Earth to represent her in the cosmos, Beethoven music is the first candidate.
legend. respect.
Beautiful !
Cool dass ihr die Scorpiens dazu geholt habt
Hannover 🎉
Hi Sarah hope you read this. I think it would be great if you make a video with Rick Beato who know quite a lot about music from both side of the fences just like you. I´m sure it will be dynamite!!!
He didn't composed music for the masses he wanted to put a voice to his darken soul, yes he was dark. I believe that he was the original rock star and creator.
Been waiting for this!
Seems John Williams really enjoing that talking :D An amazing Documentary with Sarah!!! Well done :D
Very impressed with this distinctive work , i really enjoyed and also learned a lot about the great BEETHOVEN .
Wonderful series --- glad I discovered this.
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Bach the father, Mozart the son, Beethoven the spirit.