{"product_id":"reflecting-beethoven-4260085530168","title":"Reflecting Beethoven","description":"\"Beethoven has been pressed into many categories. At times he was seen as the great Titan, at others as an idealist; later approaches occasionally attempted to \"de-emotionalize\" his music. He simply had an incredible ability to be many things, but his music was never dispassionate. Beethoven could even sound overemotional, and then display dry wit! I see him at a crossroads in music history where he was occasionally still allowed to write plain, simple music, and I find that thoroughly moving. I'm always searching for connections across the centuries. Composers relate to one another, consciously or unconsciously. For instance, unconsciously: Henri Pousseur wasn't thinking at all about Beethoven's G Major Sonata. When I was thirteen years old, I performed the Pousseur piece at the European Youth Music Competition: it was a compulsory piece, and I won a special prize. It was the first truly \"modern\" piece in my repertoire, and required things I wasn't prepared for at all. At the beginning, for example, six different dynamic shadings are overlapping simultaneously in both hands. I found those challenges exciting: after having gone through such an experience, I had \"tasted blood\" as far as contemporary music was concerned. In the middle of the piece, there is an improvisation on predetermined musical material: I wrote my version down, and have recorded it that way now.\" (Herbert Schuch)","brand":"Avi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46243863953491,"sku":"2323277X","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/3851143_774400e4-a927-481f-8265-f96929a3e6d3.jpg?v=1789249905","url":"https:\/\/www.deepdiscount.com\/products\/reflecting-beethoven-4260085530168","provider":"Deep Discount","version":"1.0","type":"link"}