Mark Steel Lectures - Ludwig van Beethoven
Mark Steel turns up the volume on Beethoven with his tribute to a man who was the nearest eighteenth-century Vienna
got to not only Jimi Hendrix, but also Captain Sensible. Unflinchingly exposing Ludwig's anger management issues and
his dependence on Ceefax's 888 subtitle service, Mark Steel sets Beethoven in his revolutionary context and reveals
the quirks of his character the history books gloss over.
Taking in the revolutionary nature of the Freemasons, Haydn's contractual similarity to Prince, Beethoven's unusual
fondness for semi-hemidemisemiquavers and his love-hate relationship with Napoleon, The Mark Steel Lectures once again
combines unique reconstructions with inventive graphics to bring Beethoven right up to the minute.
(from open2.net)
| Mark Steel Lectures - Ludwig van Beethoven |
| Related Links |
| Ludwig van Beethoven - wikipedia Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. |
| The Genius of Beethoven This is a three-part BBC dramatized documentary series presented by Charles Hazlewood, taking a look at the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven. |
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