How much do you know about Beethoven?

[kayaker]

WITHOUT using Google;

Do you know what happened when he died?

SPOILER:

He decomposed

Several coworkers did not know this!

[bienville]

Beethoven wasn't nearly as awesome as Air Bud.

[RealityChuck]

I knew that. Itzhak Perlman told me. (Perlman loves stupid and corny jokes, but can tell them in a way that makes them hilarious).

[kayaker]

The Skeptics Guide To The Universe podcast told me.

[Musicat]

All I know is...Da, da, da, DAH...

[Exapno Mapcase]

How is there not a mention of Monty Python?

They're decomposing composers.
There's nothing much anyone can do.
You can still hear Beethoven,
But Beethoven cannot hear you.

[Voyager]

I heard Richard Thompson do a song (not written by him but on an album he participated in) from a composer decomposing

Not that I've been boxed
they say my music rocks

Now that I'm deceased
my record sales increased

Here is a YouTube link which I haven't looked at yet. I saw him do it live.

[Atomic Mama]

I don't know enough, obviously !

[panache45]

Originally Posted by Atomic Mama

I don't know enough, obviously !

And I think I know too much.

[Suburban Plankton]

I know that his favorite works include Mozart's 'Requiem', Handal's 'Messiah', and Bon Jovi's 'Slippery When Wet'.

[tellyworth]

What's brown and sits on a piano?

SPOILER:

Beethoven's last movement.

[PSXer]

I know that he never hurt anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.

[Tess Trueheart]

... I was all ready to get into the late Beethoven piano sonatas and why they're different from the middle Beethoven piano sonatas, and how he used sacred texts in the concert hall which set off a major compositional paradigm shift...

but it's a giggle thread, so:
ha!

[K364]

These puns are really Pathétique.

[Le Ministre de l'au-delà]

I think he just rolled over; tell Tchaikovsky the news!

[panache45]

Originally Posted by K364

These puns are really Pathétique.

They're better by Moonlight.

[Little Nemo]

The great tragedy of Beethoven's life was that Elise never put out for him, even after he wrote that music for her.

[Uncle Brother Walker]

I've really got nothin' to add here, so I guess my reply would be: So: 'Nada.

[GuanoLad]

Originally Posted by Suburban Plankton

I know that his favorite works include Mozart's 'Requiem', Handal's 'Messiah', and Bon Jovi's 'Slippery When Wet'.

Most excellent.

[twickster]

Moved CS --> MPSIMS.

[panache45]

Originally Posted by GuanoLad

Most excellent.

It's no mere Bagatelle.

[Bumbershoot]

I know that Ray Charles stole one of his most popular songs from Beethoven, as shown in this rare footage. Apologies for the poor video quality but it is over 200 years old.

[aceplace57]

The kid in Peanuts loves Beethoven.

[aruvqan]

Originally Posted by RealityChuck

I knew that. Itzhak Perlman told me. (Perlman loves stupid and corny jokes, but can tell them in a way that makes them hilarious).

LOL, I had the fun of meeting him once back in 1979 [I went to school with David Zinman's kid and met him backstage at a concert with David Zinman, who also has a wicked funny sense of humor.]

One of my favorite books to swipe out of my dad's library when growing up was Victor Borge's My Favorite Intermissions.

[panache45]

Originally Posted by RealityChuck

I knew that. Itzhak Perlman told me. (Perlman loves stupid and corny jokes, but can tell them in a way that makes them hilarious).

Yes, when I met him in Carnegie Hall, he told me he drove there in his Kreisler.

[Dendarii Dame]

Originally Posted by aceplace57

The kid in Peanuts loves Beethoven.

His name is Schroeder. Lucy once told him that Beethoven wasn't so great, because he'd never been on a bubble gum card.

[astorian]

"Our greatest accomplishment was convincing the world that Hitler was German and Beethoven was one of US."

-Austria

[astorian]

Didn't Ludwig have a cute, randy sister named Misty?

[Voyager]

Originally Posted by panache45

Yes, when I met him in Carnegie Hall, he told me he drove there in his Kreisler.

And how did he get there?

Practice, practice!

[snowthx]

I don't know about Beethoven, but Bach never had any money, which is why he always played Baroque.

[Little Nemo]

Originally Posted by astorian

Didn't Ludwig have a cute, randy sister named Misty?

More surprisingly, he also had a misty brother named Randy.

[Siam Sam]

Why couldn't Beethoven find his teacher?

SPOILER:

He was Haydn.

[Malacandra]

Beethoven was explaining to his manservant Hans how musicians find inspiration all around them in everything they see and hear, and he said "For instance, Hans, I might even find that something you say or do inspired my very next symphony - think of that!". "Oh, that's a good joke, master!" exclaimed Hans. "A lunkhead like me inspire a genius like you! What a hoot! Ha-ha-ha-haa! Ha-ha-ha-haa!"

[minlokwat]

I think I read that when he died, he was working on a project he called Deaf Jams.

Home boy was waaaay ahead of his time.

[Le Ministre de l'au-delà]

What was Beethoven's favourite fruit?







Ba-na-na-NAH!

[panache45]

And when he was out for lunch, he hung a little sign on his door:

BACH at 1 o'clock.
OFFENBACH earlier.

[panache45]

Beethoven once commented that the difference between a tenor and an alto is:

SPOILER:

Tenors don't have hair on their backs.

[Quasimodem]

You GUYS!!!!!! panache45, that's some panache, my friend!!!!

Are you serious about that last quote?????

Because I want to use that the next time West Georgia College (my alma mater) has another Beethoven Festival.

I love you guys, and I am sure the Maestro would have loved you too!

Q

Also, thanks to Thudlow Boink for directing me here!