Laurence Glavin wrote:

> Could it be that there are more anecdotes about Beethoven than any other
> composer?  Anyway, about two years ago, James Levine performed the "Missa
> Solemnis" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and in an interview with
> the then more-prosperous Boston Globe, declared that work to be the
> single greatest musical composition of which he was aware.  Let's flip
> the telescope: a few weeks earlier, National Public Radio queried listeners
> as to what they thought might be the WORST piece of classical music!
> The choice...Beethoven's "Wellington's Victory, or the Battle Symphony".

Well, I suppose it depends on what you consider "classical".  I'd consider
Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio infinitely worse than Wellington's
Sieg, which at keast has a few good tunes (even if Ludwig didn't write
them).

And I wonder when his Op.123 became TGPOMEW (The Greatest Piece Of Music
Ever Written).

Always used to be Bach's B minor Mass.

Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>

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