Performing Beethoven - what it feels like to embody a master on today's stage
- Written by Scott Davie, Lecturer in Piano, School of Music, Australian National University
In a series marking the 250th year of his birth, we analyse the brilliance of Ludwig van Beethoven.
When Beethoven died in 1827, thousands of pages of highly notated music were bequeathed to posterity. Yet unlike arts such as painting and sculpture, which communicate directly from the artist to the observer, these otherwise silent pages demand...