Photos, videos and docs of John Sheldon, with the keywords: "Beethoven"

Ludwig van

nobody@ipernity.com (John Sheldon) — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:54:34 +0000

In the streets of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy.

This music crept by me ...

nobody@ipernity.com (John Sheldon) — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:41:50 +0000

"This music crept by me upon the waters" (The Tempest, by Shakespeare); or, rather, I ignorantly passed over the Schumann Fantasia for many decades before recently coming to love it. I heard this recording of Richter at Abbey Road Studios in online quality and decided I must have a real CD copy: even if I had to get it from Japan! I would happily have this CD as my grave goods.
The CD also includes The Tempest Sonata by Beethoven. In another life I played that Sonata to a panel of senior professors at the RAM in London. They are all dead now, so it is too late for me to apologise.

L. van Beethoven - Drei Quartette

nobody@ipernity.com (John Sheldon) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:26:40 +0000

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'Et in Arcadia Ego' (And in Heaven I am).

Beethoven Sonaten

nobody@ipernity.com (John Sheldon) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:48:30 +0000

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This hardback book containing all 32 of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas in clear, crisp typeface, was purchased in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, in 1934. It was a gift for someone - no price is shown but just 5 years after the Wall Street crash, this must have been a very expensive present.

LVB

nobody@ipernity.com (John Sheldon) — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 16:46:16 +0000

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Small bust of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Gran Conti with Beethoven

nobody@ipernity.com (John Sheldon) — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 15:54:12 +0000

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DNG heavily manipulated in processing software.

Zum Schwarzen Kameel, Vienna

nobody@ipernity.com (John Sheldon) — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:50:27 +0000

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The composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) regularly drank red wine at the Kameel. According to an 1820 order slip hand-written by Beethoven, he had the Kameel deliver to his house: two and a half litres of Austrian white wine, fine and regular sugar and the very best coffee… – without which, he said, he was not able to compose.