Beethoven

Guided Missiles Schwetterling, Wasserfall, Rbeintocbter, Enzian, Feuerlilie, Ruhrstahl, Beethoven, Fritz X, Taifun Henscbel (pp Ger 81 to Ger 85)... 

You press a button and Beethoven music pours into the room like water, water you have looked into, water you have held. 

Earlier fantastic claims that 24,000 simultaneous telephone calls on a single pair of fibers al rates of up to 1.7 billion bits per second could be made, that full-length motion pictures such as Gone with the Wind could be fed to a home memory unit in one second, or that major symphonies, such as Beethoven s Fifth, could be transmitted in less than 1/50 of a second have already been surpassed. For example, here is listing of some hero experiments illustrating an optical fiber s capability as of the year 2000. 

The phonograph was now playing a Beethoven symphony. Closing my eyes, I could see letters, numbers, and words cascading into place, once again superimposing themselves on the non-verbal world. 

La Mer by Claude Debussy Capriccio Espagnol by Rimsky Korsakov Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven The Elements by Tom Lehrer jazz, rock, or pop selections... 

Weiss, R. Study Concludes Beethoven Died From Lead Poisoning. Washington Post, December 6, 2005. 

This present writer has the original copy, it was sent to him from Israel. One half-page article is entitled Amidst the Killing, Children Sang of Brotherly Love . In 1943, 10-year-old Daniel K. arrived in Auschwitz. Now a university professor, he looks back at a different face of the death camp , runs the introduction. Professor K. writes The Chorale from [Beethoven s Ninth Symphony] was... performed by a Jewish children s choir at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943... I was a member of that choir... I... remember my first engagement with culture, with history, and with music—in the camp... ... 

But, as always, the voyager may intrude his personality with its wants and opinions. He may not "like" the noise. His judgmental ego may be aesthetically offended by the sounds of life. The heart thud is, after all, monotonous the natural music of the inner ear, with its clicks and hums and whistles, lacks the romantic symmetries of Beethoven. The terrible separation of "me" from my body occurs. Horrible. Out of my control. Turn it off. 

Learning from the work of the great masters is important in the study of all the arts. This is the reason why art students copy paintings in museums and why the young Richard Wagner copied, note for note, the scores of Beethoven s symphonies. The aesthetic laws of perfumery, the laws of harmony and contrast, of unity of impression and... 

Ludwig van Beethoven, arguably the greatest composer who ever lived, led a troubled life fraught with sickness, deafness, and personality aberrations. Now we may know the source of these difficulties lead poisoning. Scientists have recently reached this conclusion through analysis of Beethoven s hair. When Beethoven died in 1827 at age 56, many mourners took samples of the great man s hair. In fact, it was said at the time that he was practically bald by the time he was buried. 

The hair that was recently analyzed consisted of 582 strands—3 to 6 inches long—bought for the Center of Beethoven Studies for 7300 in 1994 from Sotheby s auction house in London. 

According to William Walsh of the Health Research Institute (HRI) in suburban Chicago, Beethoven s hair showed a lead concentration 100 times the normal levels. The scientists concluded that Beethoven s exposure to lead came as an adult, possibly from the mineral water he drank and swam in when he visited spas. 

The lead poisoning may well explain Beethoven s volatile temper—the composer was subject to towering rages and sometimes had the look of a wild animal. In rare cases lead poisoning has been known to cause deafness, but the researchers remain unsure if this problem led to Beethoven s hearing loss. 

According to Walsh, the scientists at HRI were originally looking for mercury, a common treatment for syphilis in the early nineteenth century, in Beethoven s hair. The absence of mercury supports... 

Music is something organized. Perhaps there is some relationship between chemistry and music in their organization. What I like in music is to see the full picture, to see how it has been constructed. I also like tense music, Bela Bartok, for instance, and Beethoven. I like music when there is a stream, when it is flowing. Gabriel Faure, also. I like its intensity. I also like Bach but more for its construction. 

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