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Plane

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Adressing Royalty
« on: November 02, 2007, 10:30:11 PM »
"Prince, you are you by accident of birth; what I am, I am
of myself. There are and there will be thousands of princes.
There is only one Beethoven." (Ludwig van Beethoven)
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Re: Adressing Royalty
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2007, 04:37:15 PM »
I am guessing that this, though true, did not result in the Prince hiring Beethovan as a court musician.
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Re: Adressing Royalty
« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2007, 06:10:16 PM »
Quote from: Xavier_Onassis on November 04, 2007, 04:37:15 PM
I am guessing that this, though true, did not result in the Prince hiring Beethovan as a court musician.



Like he would deign to take such a pay cut.


Beethoven was a peoples music man , a rock star.
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Re: Adressing Royalty
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2007, 08:06:46 AM »
In those days, the people didn't have diddly. There were no recordings, no copyrights on sheet music, no way Beethoven had to make money as a musician other than public concerts and giving lessons. He might have been a rock star today, but he didn't have it that easy then.

Mozart died in debt and was buried in a pauper's grave.

In addition to this, Europe was ravaged by the Napoleonic wars and their aftermath during the early 1800's.
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Re: Adressing Royalty
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2007, 01:52:17 PM »
Beethoven had strong feelings about Napolion.

He wrote a symphony to honor Napolion , but just as he was prepareing to finish and publish it , Napolion crowned himself Emporerer.

Beethoven was disgusted with Napolion after that and he removed the dedication from his symphony before he published it .

At this point Beethoven was pulling in plenty of money and had a lot of fans in every walk of life.

Music is much more availible to us now , it is hard to imagine life with so much quiet .
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