Agitprop was ready ... all set to go. Yesterday Beethoven would have been 235 years old. He would have looked it too. Photo? Check. Dates? Check (1770-1827). Typepad? Feh. We were cast into the wilderness.
So happy birthday big guy. And Typepad ... this is going to require more than a free month.
tags: ludwig van beethoven six apart typepad photo by blogenfreude
Welcome back.
Posted by: Robot Buddha | December 17, 2005 at 08:45 AM
Thank you Bobot Ruddha. I've got some snark here somewhere ... give me a minute ...
Posted by: blogenfreude | December 17, 2005 at 08:50 AM
Nice of you to return. That brooding fella you got up top there looks like he about sums up the foul mood of you typepadistas. Welcome back.
Posted by: Neil Shakespeare | December 17, 2005 at 09:24 AM
That was some all-star ad hoc blogging yesterday, but
" . . . any fool knows a dog needs a home,
A shelter from pigs on the wing."
Happy belated birthday Ludwig.
Posted by: Fred | December 17, 2005 at 09:32 AM
I'm getting all my Beethoven out to celebrate! Eroica first!
Posted by: HelenWheels | December 17, 2005 at 01:01 PM
How horrible re typepad. My deepest sympathies...and how smart to start a new blog for the refugees. xoxoxo Blue Gal
Posted by: Blue Gal | December 17, 2005 at 01:35 PM
You've handled it well, I didn't even know that their was a problem until recently.
Posted by: rlp | December 17, 2005 at 01:39 PM
Eroica first!
Good choice - I went with the Triple Concerto.
Posted by: blogenfreude | December 17, 2005 at 02:10 PM
BF: I'm a Late Quartets guy myself.
By the way, I'm keeping the "Type Pad Refugees" url on my Blogroll just in case...
Posted by: Robot Buddha | December 17, 2005 at 02:33 PM
Blogen: It does not matter that the picture of Beethoven was a day late, it is surely a good one.
Posted by: Night Bird | December 17, 2005 at 06:38 PM
What other composers do you like?
Posted by: Polly Jones | December 17, 2005 at 07:13 PM
One of the greatest composers ever...happy belated birthday B.
Posted by: Alexander Wolfe | December 18, 2005 at 12:15 AM
Yo BF, let's say I was going to get into Beethoven, where would I start?
Posted by: comandante agi | December 18, 2005 at 08:31 AM
Yo BF, let's say I was going to get into Beethoven, where would I start?
3rd, 5th, 9th symphonies; Choral Fantasy (get the London Symphony Orch. conducted by Roger Norrington); Triple Concerto; any of the string quartets; Moonlight, Pathetique, and Apassionata piano sonatas. On the sonatas, I recommend Glenn Gould or Richard Goode.
Posted by: blogenfreude | December 18, 2005 at 08:57 AM
I personally LOVE me some J.S. Bach; Mozart (of course), Brahms (!!), Tchaikovsky (sp?), Wagner (I know, I know - nazi, but he made great tunes), Dvorak, Stravinsky. But don't ask me for specific recordings. I'm not enough of an audiophile for that (plus sorta lazy in that regard).
Posted by: HelenWheels | December 18, 2005 at 03:59 PM
Eroica gives me chills, even still.
Posted by: Arun | December 23, 2005 at 02:15 PM