Meditating on This Today
December 17, 2021
The String Quartet No. 14 in C♯ minor, Op. 131 December 17, 1770 is the day that Ludwig van Beethoven’s name is first noted in a public registry, in the public records of baptism in Bonn.
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Growing Deaf in the Moonlight
December 16, 2021
A fragment of the third movement of Ludwig von Beethoven’s “Piano Sonata No. 14” (named by others “the Moonlight Sonata”), this emotion-laden piece of existential mania — marked “presto agitato”
Mahler’s Guts, Beethoven’s Ninth, Seung Sahn’s 365
December 19, 2020
In Zen tradition, it is said that transmission happens when “You can stand on your teacher’s head.” This means, you have attained penetration of the heart of practice, and its
[ 2 ] Oh, Bernstein on Beethoven’s “Eroica”
October 21, 2020
And so, it metastasizes. This ineluctable concept-listening disease… Since that listening of the final movement of Mahler’s First Symphony, I fell into study this eveningof just Beethoven’s opening movement from
