Previous posts for December 16th are here: Ludwig van Beethoven (2019) and (2020), Noël Coward; François-Adrien Boieldieu; Alice Parker (2021), Ludwig van Beethoven (2022), Ludwig van Beethoven (2023), and Zoltán Kodály; Ludwig van Beethoven (2024)
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Ludwig van Beethoven’s (16 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) birthday is generally celebrated on December 16, although there is no documentary proof of the date. We know for certain he was baptized on the 17th.
A Job Well Done
When Beethoven wrote a new work,
He scribbled indecipherable pages
Where the germs of his movements would lurk
While emerging in baffling stages.
And his publishers hated this quirk,
But they published the piece for the ages.
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Charles Edward Horsley (16 December 1822 – 28 February 1876) was an English musician and composer.
On Horsley's David
“…[Horsley's David] is a work… containing many beautiful pieces,... but in a style and school directly tracable [sic.] to Mendelssohn. Perhaps, as Mr. Horsley grows older and writes more, he may throw off the trammels of his favourite model. We doubt it.” – from a review by J.W. Davison
The advice from a critic about it
Was to freshen his style and re-route it
On a road that eschews
Mendelssohnian views. —
Did Horsley agree? Well. I doubt it.
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