Mats Norrman writes:
>Speaking about the march in Beethoven 9 - it is a great joke. Imagine
>writing world historys most serious symphony, and then comes this!!
>I consider it an example of hte masters most contraversial humour -
>and humour is a value in Beethoven.
Being a person who does not care for humor in music and likely does a poor
job of recognizing it, I'm interested in what is humorous about the fourth
movement march. I never noted anything funny about it, just that I felt it
was musically very effective.
Don Satz
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