I mean, how many composers wouldhave thought of turning the accompaniment, the...
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I mean, how many composers would
have thought of turning the accompaniment, the repeated
chords, at least the top line of those repeated chords,
into the subject of a fugue, as he does in the penultimate
variation? So, in the waltz, you have... HE PLAYS WALTZ HE REPEATS NOTE And, of course, the theme in the
fugue is... HE REPEATS HIGHER NOTE
have thought of turning the accompaniment, the repeated
chords, at least the top line of those repeated chords,
into the subject of a fugue, as he does in the penultimate
variation? So, in the waltz, you have... HE PLAYS WALTZ HE REPEATS NOTE And, of course, the theme in the
fugue is... HE REPEATS HIGHER NOTE
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I mean, how many composers would
have thought of turning
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the accompaniment, the repeated
chords, at least the top line
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of those repeated chords,
into the subject of a fugue,
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as he does in the penultimate
variation?
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So, in the waltz, you have...
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HE PLAYS WALTZ
00:00:17.044 --> 00:00:19.016
HE REPEATS NOTE
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And, of course, the theme in the
fugue is...
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HE REPEATS HIGHER NOTE
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Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770, a documentary series that focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the great composer.
