How did you get access to the test? I clicked on just about every link there and failed. Do you have to become a member or something? 
Ok, it’s Bach and not Beethoven.
I still have to express my love for the Little Fugue in G Minor. I learned it in 10th grade orchestra and it’s still my favorite classical piece.
Unusually versatile, it sounds equally good with organ, brass instruments or string instruments.
Brass
Organ
My personal favorite Strings
Any idea what the deal was with Bach’s do?
6th, then 3d.
What the heck’s wrong with J.S’s doo???
It’s the same doo I currently sport, and I consider myself cutting edge baroque!
This has nothing whatsoever to do with this thread. Why not start a new one?
I just made a quick comment about a classical piece that I performed in school and still love. There’s no need for an extended discussion.
I can’t recall if we did any Beethoven. The orchestra did some long pieces. I don’t think we did any full symphonies.
Eroica probably, but it depends upon one’s mood.
I have a soft spot for the first. I was discussing it with the conductor and some of the orchestra members a couple of weeks ago after a concert where it was played. It should be compulsory listening for any graduate student working on their thesis. It is a perfect PhD thesis in musical form. It has an introduction that sets the overall context. (1s movement.) It has an exposition on the state of the art and shows mastery of he state of the art. (2nd movement.) It has a statement of new contributions and ideas that extend the state of he art. (3rd movement.) It finishes with an exposition and development of those ideas in context. (4th movement.) Of course there was an undercurrent with his tensions with father figures and Hayden’s role in his life that probably contributed to his structuring it this way. It is a literal masterpiece. It isn’t his greatest work, but it is special.
I once calculated that Mozart never made less than $120,000/yr, equivalent, in his Vienna years and his best year of earnings, 1791, he was close to $500k equivalent. (Using data found in Solomon’s Mozart: A Life.)
The man was universally recognized as a genius from the age of 4, had parents who dedicated themselves to his career, Handel said he was the greatest composer he ever knew… the boy partied, gambled, got laid with numbing regularity, and was just bad with money. Not that much of a “tortured genius”, really.
Not doo, do. Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. Sorry if my failure to capitalize mislead you.
Nitpick: I think you mean Haydn, not Handel. Otherwise, I can’t argue with what you said.
I adore the 6th.
Haydn, yes. My bad.
My favorite LVB symphony is the Eighth because it’s obvious that he had a whole lot of fun writing it. I love Ludwig, and too often he seems so sad and tortured.
First off, I don’t care much for the 9th. I definitely prefer the 7th and 6th, in that order, so these would be my choices, along with the 5th of course.
As for the remaining five, it depends on my mood.
As noted above, the 1st and 2nd are often overlooked because they kind of pale in comparison to those that followed, but taken for what they are i.e. masterly summations of the Classical symphony, they’re pretty impressive. And they’ve got their quirks, too.
The 3rd would be an obvious choice but again, I don’t really like it much either. It’s a very fine work, clearly more ambitious and epic than the first two but it doesn’t really move me.
The 4th is an odd one. The probing, almost suspended introduction is extremely intriguing, it sounds way ahead of its time. Unfortunately, it quickly settles into something more conventional - for Beethoven that is - and isn’t the most memorable piece that he wrote. But those first 2-3 minutes are really striking.
Finally the 8th always gets my attention. Again, it’s overlooked, stuck as it is between two masterpieces, but it’s actually quite good.