Today is celebrated as Beethoven's birthday, who knows if it really is his birthday. I sure don't. Sometimes those things just get lost in the shuffle.
There are many recordings of this piece, I picked this one because I had a link to it. Herbert von Karajan does a pretty good job with it as well, as one might imagine.
This evening's sunset.
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"....who knows if it really is his birthday."
Schroeder knows.
von, not van.
von is German, van is Dutch.
Ludwig van Beethoven (/ˈlʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪt(h)oʊvən/ (About this soundlisten); German: [ˈluːtvɪç fan ˈbeːthoːfn̩] (About this soundlisten); baptised 17 December 1770[1] – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.
He was van, was the grandson of Ludwig van Beethoven (1712–1773). They used a moving van when they to Bonn from Mechelen in the Duchy of Brabant in the Flemish region of what is now Belgium. A von time was had by all.
I stand corrected.
No worries, I always hear it pronounced as "von", unless the speaker is from England. Then it is "van". I learned that by watching A Clockwork Orange.
I wrote a vonderful response and lost it last night. I've been keeping too many tabs open and just now lost another email I'd worked on most all afternoon. I blame it on the new Gmail which I dislike. My family has no sympathy, telling me I need to start using Word for the long stuff I like to work on and rewrite, saying that Gmail isn't the format to use on documents I am editing and changing. And they are right. I must change my ways.
The same setting sun in Michigan yesterday produced an usually beautiful lavonder sunset which we witnessed out the car window on a return trip from Ohio where more von was had, or at least as much von as can be had at a company Christmas party.
Always good to be home again.
A lot of Ludwig drums were hauled in vans.
How many degrees of separation is that?
Was Kevin Bacon driving the van?
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