Pourquoi Beethoven ne disait jamais non, alor...

Cela vous a peut-être échappé, mais la chanson « Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone » par les Temptations ne repose que sur l’accord parfait de si bémol mineur, c’est-à-dire sur trois notes de musique, pas une de plus, du début à la fin de la chanson, refrains compris. Mais ce n’est pas la ...  Show more

L’histoire, on la connaît, un jour, sur scène, Jerry Lee Lewis a mis le feu à son piano. Seulement voilà, il y a un problème, un sacré problème même, c’est qu’on a beau chercher, il n’y a aucun témoin, ni aucune image, de cet évènement qui a traversé le temps et fait les grandes ...  Show more

Synopsis For later Romantic composers like Richard Wagner, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 was “the apotheosis of the dance,” and certainly sitting still during the Symphony’s dizzying finale is not always easy. But for those in the audience at its premiere in 1813, as part of a benef ...  Show more

Synopsis It might seem odd that during his long career, Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály wrote only nine works for orchestra. When someone asked him about this, he replied, “I was busy with more important work: I had to educate a public.” Kodály and his countryman Béla Bartók wer ...  Show more

Synopsis On today’s date in 1845, the sleepy little German town of Bonn played host to 5000 visitors. These ranged from curious natives and opportunistic pickpockets to famous composers, performers, and music lovers from many countries, including British monarch Queen Victoria an ...  Show more

With the "Eroica," Ludwig van Beethoven expanded the idea of what a symphony could be. The man who helped inspire the symphony? Napoleon Bonaparte.