Dec

1

In a biography of Beethoven I just read it makes the point that he always had a big idea in mind whenever he wrote a piece. An idea that would live forever that "everyone would understand soon enough". Yet he planned his music in microscopic detail sometimes taking 5 years to get all the harmonies, rhythms, and melodies, into order, e.g. the missa solemnis. He also was very good at the negotiations which he turned over to his brother or Schindler often selling the same piece 3 times to 3 separate publishers all of whom thought they had exclusives. What a great model for speculators for the new year.


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