Friday, September 29, 2017
Crappy Music
Letters to Beethoven and Other Correspondence, Vol. 3: 1824-1828, ed. Theodore Albrecht (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996), p. 77, n. 6:
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On reading Weber's negative opinion of Wellington's Victory in the Cäcilia, Beethoven angrily scrawled on p. 166: "Ach du erbärmlicher Schuft, was ich scheisse ist immer noch besser als was du je gedacht" (Oh you miserable scoundrel, what I shit is better than anything you ever thought).Presumably this also includes Beethoven's Kakadu Variations (Opus 121a).
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