Beethoven Vs Steibelt - Transcription

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  • Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2024
  • From documentary "The Genius of Beethoven"
    Improvisations based off of Mozart's "Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja"
    Music from BBC Documentaries
    Transcribed by me
    Uploaded to Musescore:
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Комментарии • 135

  • @HenryTaiwan
    @HenryTaiwan Месяц назад +323

    Steibelt at home, 5 minutes later: Grazie Signore (or in his case, Danke, Herr)

    • @kennetht.2911
      @kennetht.2911 Месяц назад +14

      Underrated comment

    • @fawkes2109
      @fawkes2109 Месяц назад +9

      Amadeus appreciation post

    • @DrChrisF
      @DrChrisF Месяц назад

      @@kennetht.2911 It's literally the top comment

    • @frnjtt-pn6wj
      @frnjtt-pn6wj Месяц назад

      what you mean?

    • @benpowell5007
      @benpowell5007 Месяц назад

      All he ever wanted was to play to God.

  • @PetrichorAllegory
    @PetrichorAllegory Месяц назад +459

    Ironically it is exactly the endless and meaningless arpeggiation in the "Beethoven improvisation" that Beethoven himself disliked. Beethoven's improvisations were reputed to be complex, filled with inner voices, and so well thought out as to appear composed. I am sorry to see that general audiences will simply perceive Beethoven's playing as the flashiest and fastest, when in fact it was likely much more than that.

    • @michelcamachomusic
      @michelcamachomusic Месяц назад +7

      Can you share the source of that Beethoven quote please?

    • @knuggems
      @knuggems Месяц назад +9

      I’m not saying you’re wrong, but had I heard that statement without a name of the composer I would have thought of Liszt at first…😂

    • @alwaurora8069
      @alwaurora8069 Месяц назад +9

      I mean... That may be the case? I don't know whether to trust those witness accounts on those details. When I think of the few "improvisatory-like" compositions by Beethoven I am familiar with (thinking of his cadenza for Mozart's D minor piano concerto here, which is supposed to feel like an improvised afterthought on the initial movement, or the piano introduction to the Choral Fantasy...), they don't appear too 'composed' to me. Perhaps they don't have as much meaningless arpeggiation but, oh boy, do they feature meaningless scales, modulations that go nowhere and endless, cheap dominant chords...
      Don't get me wrong, Beethoven at his best is probably my favourite composer of them all and he certainly was a noted improviser back in the day. But to me there is a big difference between his really thought-out pieces - which surely contain everything you say and more - and, for the lack of actual improvisations, those works of him supposed to feel as though they were improvised.

    • @HikikoSunny01
      @HikikoSunny01 Месяц назад +1

      I think it's just to show 'laypeople' how good he was in an accessible way, :v
      Afaik, Beethoven's improv here is actually much more close to what Steibelt did, uh though take what i say here with a grain of salt, i dont have sources.
      Also, the best example of a 'improvisation' is Beethoven's fantasia op. 77 and his cadenzas.

    • @HikikoSunny01
      @HikikoSunny01 Месяц назад

      @@alwaurora8069 I mean, thats the point, a free form session. cadenzas were often improvised or simply composed in a free form.
      Also, closest we have to his improvisation is the fantasia, op 77

  • @RandomOrganist687
    @RandomOrganist687 Месяц назад +201

    And the rest is just the same isn't?
    Wait, wrong movie

    • @Cinnamonny-w6y
      @Cinnamonny-w6y Месяц назад +8

      Grazie Signore... uh i mean danke Herr

    • @thegoodgeneral
      @thegoodgeneral Месяц назад +5

      A much, much better movie.

    • @EwicoCylinder
      @EwicoCylinder Месяц назад

      @@thegoodgeneral Yesn you are totally right. But this movie isn't totally a bad movie for first time watching.

    • @jeffmorris4802
      @jeffmorris4802 Месяц назад

      that's a different song though this is the birdcatcher's song from the magic flute non piu andrai fro amadeus is from the marriage of figaro

    • @kaikirr
      @kaikirr 14 дней назад

      this doesn't really work... does it? Did you try, This? THIS! Better? What you think? "laughs in tune"

  • @dutube99
    @dutube99 Месяц назад +79

    2:04 she realizes the vast overkill is unnecessary and that there is something much deeper going on

  • @HeadmostCantaloupe
    @HeadmostCantaloupe Месяц назад +68

    Then a guy's gonna come in, take the clip and make it black and white, lower the framerate and say "*REAL* FOOTAGE OF BEETHOVEN!"

    • @commentingchannel9776
      @commentingchannel9776 Месяц назад +3

      A teacher of mine had a link to "a Liszt recording" uploaded to our virtual classroom. *She taught Music History.*

  • @satrialesporkstore7889
    @satrialesporkstore7889 Месяц назад +7

    Beethoven's genius actually lies in creating unimaginably beautiful harmony around a simple melody, this improvisation is more of a Mozart thing, but it's possible to see Beethoven do something like this in his early years since he was such a big fan of Mozart.

  • @HikikoSunny01
    @HikikoSunny01 Месяц назад +68

    FINALLY ONE THAT INCLUDES STEIBELT!

  • @Robotron-wd9em
    @Robotron-wd9em Месяц назад +207

    0:34 brutal parallel fifths.

    • @engelbertschoormans
      @engelbertschoormans Месяц назад +15

      yes, but the bass line is G-A-B, not G-F#-G. So parallel octaves with the second voice.

    • @Robotron-wd9em
      @Robotron-wd9em Месяц назад +1

      @@engelbertschoormans it seemed strange, intentional parallel fifths are rare to be found.

    • @danielepiscitelli6946
      @danielepiscitelli6946 Месяц назад +4

      For the measure 22 I think it can be looked as an embellishment, also because the parallel movement goes to a diminished fifths that in many schools is considered permitted.
      For the measure 21 there’s no excuses, it’s just straight parallel fifths between the second and third chord 😂

    • @teodorb.p.composer
      @teodorb.p.composer Месяц назад +6

      ​@@Robotron-wd9emParalel fifts are great. But trull, not in classicist era 😂😂 But this isn't very like pararell fifts....

    • @hadrieneverard8121
      @hadrieneverard8121 Месяц назад

      My exact thought

  • @christodoulostelemes9564
    @christodoulostelemes9564 2 месяца назад +35

    Been looking for this for quite a while

  • @matswessling6600
    @matswessling6600 Месяц назад +87

    this was really overly simplistic. in reality Steibert made a vbery impressive improvisation and Beethoven didnt pkay the same but took steibert theme and turned it upside down and just made a much more intelligent composition of it. Not just playing much faster etc. and it was long, very long.

    • @cadriver2570
      @cadriver2570 Месяц назад +12

      They always do that. As if any professional musician would be satisfied with that bland first piece. It was the musical equivalent of a 3rd grade reading level book.

    • @matswessling6600
      @matswessling6600 Месяц назад +7

      @@cadriver2570 and the thing they made "bethoven" play isnt better, just more tones...

    • @Whatismusic123
      @Whatismusic123 18 дней назад +1

      @@cadriver2570 you would never be able to compose that even if given a thousand years

    • @MiScusi69
      @MiScusi69 18 дней назад +2

      ​@@Whatismusic123Oh look, the sorabji lover. Will you play us some Schönberg? We all love your appreciation for modern classical!

    • @elliottherring5021
      @elliottherring5021 14 дней назад

      @@MiScusi69?
      Look at the music he makes (also Sorabji isn’t that bad)

  • @shosho_hrubblefongers9311
    @shosho_hrubblefongers9311 14 дней назад +5

    1:33 Adam Neely approves

  • @zvonimirtosic6171
    @zvonimirtosic6171 Месяц назад +47

    Steibelt, was not as bad as portrayed in this movie; far from it, he was an excellent pianist. The example here was GROSSLY exaggerated to somehow describe Beethoven's virtuosity. The sad part happens when "Beethoven" begins changing music keys, which Steibert could do in his sleep too. So that was inaccurate. However, "both" in this film use Mozart's tune to improvise upon, from his 'Magic Flute'. The tune is called 'Der Vogelfänger bin Ich ja', (also known as Papageno's song).

  • @frnjtt-pn6wj
    @frnjtt-pn6wj Месяц назад +10

    Every pianist could play that, but not everyone can improvise that way 😮

  • @eino145
    @eino145 Месяц назад +11

    The theme of the "improvisations" is borrowed(/stolen) from Papageno's aria from Mozart's Zauberflöte.

  • @PointyTailofSatan
    @PointyTailofSatan Месяц назад +9

    I always laugh at these music "battle" scenes in movies. The "winning" music has everyone cheering and clapping at how awesome the music sounds. But in reality, it's just musical fluff, with the technical demands of a grade school music exercise.

  • @DanielCharry1025
    @DanielCharry1025 Месяц назад +4

    Fantastic job with the transcription 💪

  • @christodoulostelemes9564
    @christodoulostelemes9564 2 месяца назад +13

    Thanks

  • @than0s948
    @than0s948 3 дня назад +2

    We do a little trolling.
    -Beethoven

  • @contrabombarde3210
    @contrabombarde3210 4 дня назад +1

    Oh, cool a combination from piano and organ 👍. That is great. I subscriebed you 😊. Kind regards Alex.

  • @frédéricchopinFan.9479
    @frédéricchopinFan.9479 Месяц назад +4

    Great video thank you!🙏 ❤

  • @bollongus
    @bollongus 28 дней назад +1

    This appears in my recommendation every time I open youtube 😂 nice transcription btw

  • @NeshMusicLover
    @NeshMusicLover Месяц назад +1

    0:19 in the right hands the second chord contains also a F (i know it's not in style). I listened carefully and I'm pretty sure of it.

  • @juliancochran
    @juliancochran Месяц назад +4

    I prefer the first version. The second lacked logic and structure and looked just as superficial showing off even though some of the transportions were colorful and intense.

    • @Lukas-ug6jy
      @Lukas-ug6jy 19 дней назад +1

      First version is extremely basic and purposefully bad in an exaggerated way. The ritardando into an ad lib flourish is cheesy and overused. Aren‘t you just trying to be contrarian? The second version actually has some ideas and develops them. Of course it‘s not profound, but it‘s not meant to be.

  • @Vic9994546
    @Vic9994546 Месяц назад +2

    Good transcription som notes is when you have the eighth beamed to the sixteenth triplet it’s better to write as an ornament ie grace notes and such, because they look the same but they are very different in terms of phrasing. Seeing it as grace notes I would play the main note stronger but writing it as triplets you would accidentally play the triplet louder than it should be when it’s supposed to be a decoration not apart of the main structural melody it’s just some compositional tips to show hierarchy

  • @martinli8587
    @martinli8587 Месяц назад

    Thx for this. Amazing!

  • @Scientart
    @Scientart 2 дня назад

    Istg this piece, Cerulean, and Squeeze on your lega are true art

  • @manuelvidal9285
    @manuelvidal9285 Месяц назад +1

    Aunque faltó aclarar que la obra sobre la cual improvisan pertenece a la ópera Flauta mágica de Mozart, una de las Arias de Papageno.

  • @gmnotyet
    @gmnotyet Месяц назад

    That was awesome, thanks.

  • @christophedevos3760
    @christophedevos3760 Месяц назад

    These musical 'duels' were occurring regularly I suppose, there was also the one with Wölfl, maybe at the behest of their publisher(s) (it seems the competition was also going on in print, writing variations on the same theme, not very different from how the Diabelli variations came to fruition).

  • @eren_psgamer17
    @eren_psgamer17 3 месяца назад +1

    Thank youuuuuu❤❤❤❤❤

  • @villain7140
    @villain7140 Месяц назад +17

    Beethoven imitating Steibelt with that silly ass new accompaniment is hilarious

  • @Teslav2_music
    @Teslav2_music Месяц назад +1

    Beethoven got all of the damsels by just improvising

  • @nataliekodetova7029
    @nataliekodetova7029 21 день назад

    Nice ❤

  • @GinoCerutti-z5f
    @GinoCerutti-z5f Месяц назад +1

    ❤❤❤

  • @ricardorivas5955
    @ricardorivas5955 25 дней назад

    the trills make it seem more virtousic that it is

  •  Месяц назад +1

    This is Mozart's Papageno's song

  • @brianbernstein3826
    @brianbernstein3826 Месяц назад +3

    2:14 measure 62 right hand not possible for anyone lol

    • @8_squared
      @8_squared  Месяц назад +1

      Wait till you see Liszt's music 😶

    • @brianbernstein3826
      @brianbernstein3826 29 дней назад

      @@8_squared um. I've seen it. I've played it

    • @DavitMinasyan-rn3fv
      @DavitMinasyan-rn3fv 23 дня назад

      lmao.. 2-1-2-4 fingering and you’re good, if you think thats not possible look at rach 3, third movement

    • @brianbernstein3826
      @brianbernstein3826 23 дня назад

      @@DavitMinasyan-rn3fv yeah I was practicing it this way just for fun. it's quite manageable, I just can't play it as fast as Beethoven in the video lol

  • @IMSColoradoSprings
    @IMSColoradoSprings Месяц назад +1

    Excellent, excellent, excellent! This ie wonderful. I had engraved this but the video with the score is brilliant!

  • @schelyeuwong4456
    @schelyeuwong4456 19 дней назад

    At the end Beethoven brings back the original flute/picc motif of Mozart. He’s really the biggest fan 😂

  • @jeffscales2720
    @jeffscales2720 Месяц назад +9

    Why is it when I see him pucker his lips like that ( 1:25) I feel like I know for sure it is something Beethoven would do.

  • @studentofcounterpoint
    @studentofcounterpoint Месяц назад

    it's a good transcription but why are F# notated as Gb ?

  • @samybelhora4602
    @samybelhora4602 Месяц назад

    Quel est le titre de cette extrait ???🤔🤔🤔

    • @8_squared
      @8_squared  Месяц назад

      Mozart - Die Zauberflöte; Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja

  • @bigkahunauk1
    @bigkahunauk1 Месяц назад

    Is this a true reflection of Beethoven, brilliant but short tempered and acerbic?

  • @pansyr4596
    @pansyr4596 Месяц назад +6

    "Prestissimo con fuoco" lol

  • @adriancostea4575
    @adriancostea4575 20 дней назад +1

    0:38

  • @evangelos6509
    @evangelos6509 Месяц назад

    wow!!!!!!!!!!

  • @MillEditing
    @MillEditing Месяц назад

    hey do you take request? i'd be happy if you can do this!

    • @8_squared
      @8_squared  Месяц назад +3

      I may do requests, but it depends on how much time I have.
      But feel free to reccomend things I should compose/arrange, I would like to see more ideas that I could do.

    • @MillEditing
      @MillEditing Месяц назад

      @@8_squared ruclips.net/video/zkA-uG5n2C4/видео.html&ab_channel=fruit%E6%9E%9C-animeonpiano
      this may be hard, but I would love to learn this for new years. a beautiful start

  • @ИванАндрианов-ш7н
    @ИванАндрианов-ш7н Месяц назад +2

    Name of movie please

    • @8_squared
      @8_squared  Месяц назад +3

      It is a BBC Documentary called "The Genius of Beethoven."

    • @mathewkubik3199
      @mathewkubik3199 Месяц назад +3

      Naruto

  • @KevinMamea
    @KevinMamea 2 дня назад

    As it was told, by my ancestors.

  • @kp2164
    @kp2164 Месяц назад

    1:46 I love trilling here lol

    • @newaccounter
      @newaccounter Месяц назад

      Signature Beethoven nastiness

  • @den2459
    @den2459 Месяц назад

    I prefer first

  • @brunolanzasant
    @brunolanzasant Месяц назад

    Beethoven would never conclude it so quickly, after bar 68 he'd spend at least another 35 lol

  • @renevega3529
    @renevega3529 8 дней назад

    Bethoveen 😎

  • @thedevil1667
    @thedevil1667 2 дня назад

    That's easy. Ragtime from lidle 😂 I thought he played something more complicated

  • @HarrodUla-z7i
    @HarrodUla-z7i Месяц назад

    Jackson Frank Clark David Williams Daniel

  • @하백-e4i
    @하백-e4i Месяц назад

    i think Steibelt was better

  • @CantFindaName59
    @CantFindaName59 Месяц назад

    Beautiful coda, couldn't be played worse... No phrasing, just forte and pedal...

  • @Whatismusic123
    @Whatismusic123 18 дней назад +1

    Trash vs Garbage ahh piano battle

    • @shenFen-jf2jk
      @shenFen-jf2jk 8 дней назад

      Like you could compose anything better lol

  • @PerritoVision
    @PerritoVision Месяц назад +2

    i didnt know beethoven spoke with a biritish accent

  • @arthurfunk3104
    @arthurfunk3104 Месяц назад

    That was pretty good, but he's no Oscar Peterson.