Beethoven's 7th Symphony
If you already know the piece, I'd love to hear about the effect it had on you when you first heard it. I got turned on to it when I was fifteen: played it over and over again for a week and a half and walked around in a deep, blue somnambulent daze. Damn near drove my roomate crazy.
It took me about as long to make these signs as it does to listen to the whole symphony.
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I fell in love with this piece of music in college. It was in a music history class that I was introduced to it. That class was many, many years ago. I loved to listen this symphony as well as Hayden's string quartet op 76,3.
My college roommate used to tease me about playing them over and over. Until I came home from class early one day and found she was playing these records when I was gone. Thanks for re-introducing me to this music.
I first heard the 2nd movement around Xmas 1997, on a tv documentary by Sir George Martin on Music. I bought it the next day, such was the immediate impact it made on me.
It is for me the most beautiful piece of music ever written. Poor Beethoven, already going deaf by the time he wrote it in 1813, never got to hear it so vibrantly as we do today. I included it on both my children's birth tapes, as I felt it was a beautiful accompaniement to the entry to the world.
I was first introduced to it as a music major at Furman University (Greenville, SC) in the early 1990's. The second movement just broke my heart. To this day, I still don't know why. I played my cassette incessantly, until the orchestration seeped into my bones. I went from tears streaming down my cheeks, to gaining enough control to feel the tears well up but not spill over. Now I just have a deep pang of grief of wash over me when I hear the movement.
This has come back to my attention because one my piano students is learning a "dumbed down" rendition in her lessons book, and want her to hear it done properly so she too can be devastated by the beauty of this music.
Thank you for this post!
I first encountered this piece in a movie about Beethoven, called "Immortal Beloved," where it was used to poignant effect, but didn't quite sink in for me. Then, I heard it again in a movie called "The Fall," where it was used to absolutely stunning effect.
It is now on an endless loop in my head. This piece of music is literally haunting me in equal parts ecstasy and torture. There really are no adequate words to describe the effect this piece of music has. It just pervades your soul...
I first heard this piece in a French film, Irreversible. Ever since, it's haunted my mind. It's such a heart-rending, bittersweet piece of music.
It is now played over and over in the movie "Knowing" with Nicolas Cage. It was very familiar when I heard it in the movie but I don't know where I had heard it before. It's haunting me.
it made me feel.. insane, in a perfect way. More than crazy, more than perturbed, it was the losing piece of my mind, the missing part.
can u feel it? the talking violins?
they are giving an opinnion of us.
Anyway, that's my freaky story :)
Hi.
I love this piece since I saw a movie called Photographing Fairies like 8 years ago. The movie is great, the name sounds corny but its actually a great movie, rather obscure and psycological. The second movement is the main theme and fits just perfectly the movie's mood.
I got obsessed about the piece and it took me a while to learn it was Second Movement from Beethoven's 7th
I think the hope and happiness of the music at the end of the piece erases the sadness of the beginning, so that we CAN'T remember it clearly. So we keep playing it over and over trying to capture the entire piece.
Some music makes you feel the unknown, the thing that is beyond. with Beethvn happens often, but this piece makes the tears gather in my eyes, WHY? Dunnow, dont wanna know. This is the perfection. I don't know if a life deserves this suffering to create this thing, I mean, Nobody likes to suffer, but I am happy and grateful to Ludwig Van Beetvhoven to crate this> Thank you guys to love it the same way as I do
Currently watching Knowing at home, and I've had to pause the movie as I've been racking my brains where I've heard this piece before, in another sci-fi movie... I was about to give up when I had a revelation! It was Zardoz, an odd 70s sci-fi film starring Sean Connery. The piece plays through the final moments of the film - very poignant!
I'm posting this in case anyone else watching Knowing gets stuck and looks online for help!
Right, back to the movie...
Thank you Edward, spot on!
Cures me of starting to flick through my dvd collection for match. Thanks for taking the time to post that it was Zardoz.
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