Wow, what wonderful descriptions of Beethoven's music. I studied piano as a young man and I loved his music. I did not know why but I did. It enriched my soul and I was jubilant when I heard his music. After listening to Maestro Fischer, I know why.
This man is a miracle of vitality and musicianship...like Beethoven himself. He has taken us into the very heart of the great composer. Magnificent....!!
Oh my gosh! I don't know what I enjoy more... watching Ivan Fischer explain why he loves Beethoven, or watching him artfully and lovingly conduct Beethoven's symphonies. Amazing man. Men. Both.
How wonderful - two passions coming together in an incredible symphony! Wish we could've heard Ivan for two hours- he brings Beethoven alive like no one else. The "heroic" person in the Eroica is none other than Beethoven himself, my great hero!
And the hero is all of us. Just like Beethoven had to overcome the worst possible thing that could happen to him, his deafness we all have to overcome the burdens and hurts in our life. Beethoven is the quintessential symbol of triumph.
Ludwig Van was the first, and I hold the best composer of all time. Brilliantly inventing highly memorable (catchy?) and accessible melodies mostly based upon simple scales and harmonies, he created a genre of music that no one had done before him. His music incorporates and openly expresses all human emotions, longing, hope, love, despair, anger, frustration (of which I think he knew much), hatred, sensuality, spirituality, wonder, passion, fear, excitement, and all else. At times, his music also expresses the pleasure of relaxing and quietly contemplating, even just the elementary satisfaction of observing and appreciating nature. He was extraordinarily insightful both regarding others as well as his inner senses and feelings. He was fearless in his compositions. While prior composers had surely experienced and were aware of these emotions, none of them had thought to, or if they did, had dared to attempt to express them in their music as Beethoven did so openly (brazenly for his time) and effectively. The self-evident quality of Beethoven’s music and his success, fame and popularity during his life became the most influential musical example of the nineteenth century and beyond. His are the shoulders upon which all later composers have stood and risen. While his example has launched hundreds if not thousands of others on the exquisitely creative path of emotionally liberated musical composition, none of them, in my opinion, equal LVB. By far, and for these reasons, as well as the sheer joy of listening to his music, he is my favourite composer.
What an utterly brilliant dissertation on the genius of Beethoven ! Maestro Fischer has in this video superbly analysed some of the works of the Master, his style his other worldly sheer genius, Fischer understands him so well and takes us laymen through all the nuances of the music and helps us to understand why he wrote the music he did and what he wished to convey. He was revolutionary, his music was so revolutionary, a wake up call to us slumbering mortals totally unafraid , unparalleled grandiosity, heart rending pathos, infinite romanticism, he wrote it all, all the colours of the musical spectrum in all its magnificence . Thank you Maestro for helping us to understand , to put into words and describe so beautifully , the moods and nuances of the genius of Beethoven!👏👏👏👏
How great Fisher talks about Beethoven! I thought I was listening to Beethoven in words, facial expression, and gestures! I wish the talk were much longer! Thank you!
I have always said that Beethoven was the first film maker, use your imagination, open your mind and you will soon see what Beethoven pictured in his mind when wrote his music. Absolute genius.
I also love Ivan Fisher. He signed my program years ago and said he must get back home (in Hungary?) where his wife is preparing Passover. So I felt an attachment to him. He confessed to all he was a Jew.
I cannot remember a time of my life when Beethoven was not there. As a child I would put on a record of one of his symphonies, and in the dark conduct it.
I love his enthusiasm and his expression as the end of the 3rd movement builds into the 4th movement of the 5th symphony. I can definitely relate to his explanation. "Wait, heartbeat, like it would search for something, heartbeat, where is it, look, look, here is comes! Then arrival" Got to love it!
Beethoven needs to have passionate people conduct his symphonies. My Radiology Professor loved to tell the story of Beethoven and Paget's Disease, in which his bones started growing after adulthood. A patient will complain that his hat is getting smaller. (We lived in different times back then). The bones of his auditory canal crushed the nerves, rendering him deaf.
For me, Beethoven introduces unbridled emotion into formal music that didn't exist in earlier classical and baroque periods. He was the first to incorporate *any* emotion - anger, despair, grief, passion, jealousy, horror, fear - and not just the pleasant, pretty, tranquil, soothing and safe sounds and emotions of his predecessors.
Wow just wow, I always wondered why as a 6 year old I was drawn to Classical. I grew up in a very poor area 50 yrs ago on a council estate in the NW of England, and Classical music was unheard of. It always set my heart pounding, it was so unusual that my Dad drove me to my mothers uncle who was a proper audiophile to see what he thought, I sat in his front room just me and him for about 3 hrs with his headphones on, going through his huge collection to see what it was that fired me up, some of it I didn't get at all but there was a lot I did. We stayed another 2 or 3 hrs while he made me a ton of tapes for me to take home. I was fascinated how you could make music from a record jump onto a tape😆. "Uncle Alf' was fascinated by my reactions, he said I was showing complete Joy in my face and body language. I was very traumatised as a kid and Classical took me somewhere else for a short time. I now know why.
@@grafplaten I've seen the opera... it's not even close to Beethovens level of music. The last impressive thing in regards to art in the Renaissance is music. It took the middle and really the late Baroque era to make a real breakthrough. Monteverdi whilst excellent for his time, was far less of an influence to future composers Bach and others, until the very late 18th century, and even then rather slowly. There is a reason why in their lifetime and continuously after their deaths, Bach and Beethoven have been paced at the top of the pantheon of music.
I just listened to Fischer conduct the RCO in the 7th ruclips.net/video/-4788Tmz9Zo/видео.html and thought "Now THIS is a conductor who understands Beethoven"... and then I see this interview. It all comes together. 6:53 Beethoven displays his sense of humor!
I loved this. But I really wish one of the titans of modern symphonic music would include the Pastoral in their explication. The very definition of changing moods, but with no battles--other than nature-- and it tuns out to be lit-giving.
Schubert complained that Beethoven did everything that could be done, and there was nothing left to do. So he copied him. That’s what I would have done. Thanks, Beethoven.
A wonderfully illuminating and inspiring interview. But it isn’t entirely correct to say that Beethoven severed all connection between his Third Symphony and Napoleon. True enough, on hearing of Napoleon’s coronation, he tore up the title page - with its heading “Buonaparte”- in a fit of fury. But when the symphony appeared in print , the title (in Italian) still referred to Napoleon , though without naming him - “ Heroic Symphony in memory of a great man “.
A little more entertaining than educational, as it is willing to embrace the cliche for the sake of making a point (the aristocracy wasn't actually or even metaphorically dead, during Beethove's time, rather it paid his bills... and the orchestra of the premiere of the Eroica [there's a recording of the same size orchestra in the place it was premiered on NEOS (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001C58N60/nectarandambr-20) with Daniel Grossmann, for those interested] was rather smaller than that used for late Mozart Symphonies or Haydn's Paris or London symphonies... but yes, Fischer Iván is entertaining to watch and listen to. The same sparkle and enthusiasm that can be heard on many of his recordings.
Me gusto muchisimo su explication. Mi imagen de Bethoven se aclaro de una manera sorprendente. Thank u so much.
I love Ivan! He not only is a great conductor but he explains music to the public in a beautiful, understandable way.
totaly agree! so eduacative
And he is a really kind person, you can see it in his eyes!
You cab see it when he conducts too.@@memattia3198
I love someone as passionate about Beethoven as I am :)
Emily me too :)
Bernstein's commentaries on Beethoven's Symphonies are also quite delightful, you can tell he greatly esteemed him.
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@@martinstremlow2997 not familiar
Wow, what wonderful descriptions of Beethoven's music. I studied piano as a young man and I loved his music. I did not know why but I did. It enriched my soul and I was jubilant when I heard his music. After listening to Maestro Fischer, I know why.
He made me smile with every word he spoke
This man is a miracle of vitality and musicianship...like Beethoven himself. He has taken us into the very heart of the great composer. Magnificent....!!
Oh my gosh! I don't know what I enjoy more... watching Ivan Fischer explain why he loves Beethoven, or watching him artfully and lovingly conduct Beethoven's symphonies. Amazing man. Men. Both.
How wonderful - two passions coming together in an incredible symphony! Wish we could've heard Ivan for two hours- he brings Beethoven alive like no one else. The "heroic" person in the Eroica is none other than Beethoven himself, my great hero!
Mind blown.
And the hero is all of us. Just like Beethoven had to overcome the worst possible thing that could happen to him, his deafness we all have to overcome the burdens and hurts in our life. Beethoven is the quintessential symbol of triumph.
Ludwig Van was the first, and I hold the best composer of all time. Brilliantly inventing highly memorable (catchy?) and accessible melodies mostly based upon simple scales and harmonies, he created a genre of music that no one had done before him. His music incorporates and openly expresses all human emotions, longing, hope, love, despair, anger, frustration (of which I think he knew much), hatred, sensuality, spirituality, wonder, passion, fear, excitement, and all else. At times, his music also expresses the pleasure of relaxing and quietly contemplating, even just the elementary satisfaction of observing and appreciating nature. He was extraordinarily insightful both regarding others as well as his inner senses and feelings.
He was fearless in his compositions. While prior composers had surely experienced and were aware of these emotions, none of them had thought to, or if they did, had dared to attempt to express them in their music as Beethoven did so openly (brazenly for his time) and effectively.
The self-evident quality of Beethoven’s music and his success, fame and popularity during his life became the most influential musical example of the nineteenth century and beyond. His are the shoulders upon which all later composers have stood and risen. While his example has launched hundreds if not thousands of others on the exquisitely creative path of emotionally liberated musical composition, none of them, in my opinion, equal LVB.
By far, and for these reasons, as well as the sheer joy of listening to his music, he is my favourite composer.
How beautiful, I have never heard Ludwig van Beethoven explained like this. My favourite composer!
On RUclips Claudio Abbado also has great explanations about LVB
@@katrinat.3032 I just love Claudio Abbado, a great conductor, he will be sorely missed, one of the greatest Italian musicians!!!
I love this interview Ivan has so much passion
Now I know that I´m not a crazy man, I am just like Iván Fischer when listening Beethoven
" if Beethoven where here you would be afraid of him". I love that.
ςεςxcepqt we know from testimonies that is not true
the best and most enthusiastic comments about a person, music. My favorite artist /conductor the Hungarian Ivan Fischer!!
Én is szeretem :-)
This gives me such a precious appreciation of boisterous Beethoven's genuineness, intensity, intimacy, humour, energy.
And that's why I start to love Ludwig at the age of 7 and never stopped loving HIM
Me too
The more I listen to LVB the more I love him. I can listen to the music so many times and never get tired of it
I am a huge fan of Ivan Fischer , what a passionate guy.
It is always wonderful to see such enthusiasm.
This is Love ..... (music is Love - feelings - being touched)
I love this man's enthusiasm! Beethoven is my hero.
Wow thank you.
Loving Beethoven in a far far distance to every beloved one. And loving you for these works
O maior intérprete de Beethoven vivo! Bravo Maestro! ❤
What an utterly brilliant dissertation on the genius of Beethoven ! Maestro Fischer has in this video superbly analysed some of the works of the Master, his style his other worldly sheer genius, Fischer understands him so well and takes us laymen through all the nuances of the music and helps us to understand why he wrote the music he did and what he wished to convey. He was revolutionary, his music was so revolutionary, a wake up call to us slumbering mortals totally unafraid , unparalleled grandiosity, heart rending pathos, infinite romanticism, he wrote it all, all the colours of the musical spectrum in all its magnificence . Thank you Maestro for helping us to understand , to put into words and describe so beautifully , the moods and nuances of the genius of Beethoven!👏👏👏👏
I like Ivan´s enthusiasm to put words in music as if he exclaims a poem out of heart!
This intervieuw is so wunderfull. I love him and Beethoven ♥️
How great Fisher talks about Beethoven! I thought I was listening to Beethoven in words, facial expression, and gestures! I wish the talk were much longer! Thank you!
look at his face how much he loves it when the third sinphony starts
Awesome! Absolutely loved every minute of this interview.
fantastic summary about Beethoven. Thank you Ivan. I truly enjoyed this.
This is so inspiring on the eve of my visit to Bonn to the Beethovenhaus in the 250th year of the commemoration of his birth. Thank you Iván Fischer.
Beethoven was the first composer to attempt to connect with me (and this was before I was even born). I'm still waiting for the second.
Listen to the last 20 minutes of the Bach St. Matthew Passion. Then listen to the whole thing.
IMMENSELY entertaining and educational.
I have always said that Beethoven was the first film maker, use your imagination, open your mind and you will soon see what Beethoven pictured in his mind when wrote his music. Absolute genius.
Fischer is a LEGEND. This is lovely.
amazing explanations!!!
I also love Ivan Fisher. He signed my program years ago and said he must get back home (in Hungary?) where his wife is preparing Passover. So I felt an attachment to him. He confessed to all he was a Jew.
extremely insightful, the history lesson was amazing
LUDWIG BEETHOVEN IS MY FAVOURITE COMPOSER - BUT AFTER THE LECTURE OF THIS WELL KNOWLEDGED MAN - I LIKE BEETHOVEN EVEN MORE ------
I cannot remember a time of my life when Beethoven was not there. As a child I would put on a record of one of his symphonies, and in the dark conduct it.
Happy 250. birthday Ludwig van ❤️
Fisher’s description of Beethoven and his music draws a person to the genius!
I love this! Now I know I’m not the only one who sees things like sprouting crocus during Beethoven 😁. I LOVE the 4th symphony
I am speechless...
Great Ivan!!! Thank you so much Maestro! I love Beethoven too :)
Bravo , je vous admire ! Quelle leçon de vie au travers de Beethoven....
When you listen to Fisher you can sense his passion for music!
Ivan Fischer is full of life.
Like Beethoven!
Best video on music.he is fiery 6:56
Who in the world could downvote this. People who hate music? Thank God for Beethoven, a shining light on a world that going straight down the drain.
You are wonderful. Very sensational, expressive & passionate . I fully enjoyed every word you said and every move you made.
"sensational, expressive & passionate" - like beethoven!
I love his enthusiasm and his expression as the end of the 3rd movement builds into the 4th movement of the 5th symphony. I can definitely
relate to his explanation. "Wait, heartbeat, like it would search for something, heartbeat, where is it, look, look, here is comes! Then
arrival" Got to love it!
Beethoven needs to have passionate people conduct his symphonies.
My Radiology Professor loved to tell the story of Beethoven and Paget's Disease, in which his bones started growing after adulthood. A patient will complain that his hat is getting smaller. (We lived in different times back then). The bones of his auditory canal crushed the nerves, rendering him deaf.
Out of nowhere - A Wild Beethoven emerged!
OUTSTANDIBG WORK SIRS , thank you for this !!!
13:00 In the finale of the Eroica the oboe leads the way into the great and grand version of the little pizzicato theme that began the movement.
It made me weep
For me, Beethoven introduces unbridled emotion into formal music that didn't exist in earlier classical and baroque periods. He was the first to incorporate *any* emotion - anger, despair, grief, passion, jealousy, horror, fear - and not just the pleasant, pretty, tranquil, soothing and safe sounds and emotions of his predecessors.
Wow just wow, I always wondered why as a 6 year old I was drawn to Classical. I grew up in a very poor area 50 yrs ago on a council estate in the NW of England, and Classical music was unheard of. It always set my heart pounding, it was so unusual that my Dad drove me to my mothers uncle who was a proper audiophile to see what he thought, I sat in his front room just me and him for about 3 hrs with his headphones on, going through his huge collection to see what it was that fired me up, some of it I didn't get at all but there was a lot I did. We stayed another 2 or 3 hrs while he made me a ton of tapes for me to take home. I was fascinated how you could make music from a record jump onto a tape😆. "Uncle Alf' was fascinated by my reactions, he said I was showing complete Joy in my face and body language. I was very traumatised as a kid and Classical took me somewhere else for a short time. I now know why.
@@22triggy I was fairly traumatized as well and music was a huge escape for me as well.
Listen to Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), and then reevaluate your statement.
I agree! For me, Beethoven has an emotional power and intensity that no other composer has.
@@grafplaten I've seen the opera... it's not even close to Beethovens level of music. The last impressive thing in regards to art in the Renaissance is music. It took the middle and really the late Baroque era to make a real breakthrough. Monteverdi whilst excellent for his time, was far less of an influence to future composers Bach and others, until the very late 18th century, and even then rather slowly.
There is a reason why in their lifetime and continuously after their deaths, Bach and Beethoven have been paced at the top of the pantheon of music.
My favorite director !!!Iván greath☘️☘️👍👍👍
Such an awesome explanation from Ivan Fischer! Thank you for posting!
I love Ivan Fischer! He is so full of life! Who better to explain Beethoven!
The interviewer is just like... aw fug, I dont really need to be here. Just do your thing Ivan!
"Isn't it wonderful?!!!" - almost superfluous given his enthusiasm over the previous 15 minutes!
Very well done talk! Fully agree!
Passion painted with words...!!!
Was für ein Poet! Ein ganz großer Musiker!
It is just Beethoven, yes it is beautiful
I give thanks to God for that incredible chance, the chance of having Beethoven on earth
Beethoven: my beloved Immortal ❤🥰💗💞💞💞
A master musician. What a brilliant man
So convincing...Thanks maestro!
the journalist was not up to such a conversation with a man who has a lot to say
I think he did well
And listened
When you have someone who has a lot to say, just let him speak. That's what the journalist did
No not at all! He allows the conductor to show the genius of the composer. He is unlike most Jo who talk to much and know very little
Isn't it wonderful? It's wonderful!
i maintain Beethoven 3rd symphony created the biggest tectonic shift in all of music - Stravinsky Rite of Spring being a close second
6:56 wtf is that noise he is making btw???
Grande Iván!
I just listened to Fischer conduct the RCO in the 7th ruclips.net/video/-4788Tmz9Zo/видео.html and thought "Now THIS is a conductor who understands Beethoven"... and then I see this interview. It all comes together. 6:53 Beethoven displays his sense of humor!
The same here. Exactly the same!
wonderful !
Ik word helemaal blij van die man
his face at 02:21 🧡
Bravo! Bravo!! Bravo!!!
"Isn't it wonderful?" Yes Ivan it certainly is.
I don't understand if people can say that their favourite composer is Grieg or Rachmaninov (nothing against them) when we have Beethoven or Bach.
Beethoven's favourite was Handel. :)
It means that other people have different tastes from yours. This is easy to understand for a lot of people.
Yeah, I can respect that. It is not their fault. My problems only starts when they insult great composers because they don't feel them.
Rachmaninov is marvelous, but I think there is no composer to match Beethoven’s diversity and genius
BRAVO !!!
As clear as Beethoven's music itself. No Mumbo Jumbo!
He can't seem to control himself when the music is on.
Fischer's talking about the 5th symphony 3 movement is great
And Beethoven's opinion of Bonaparte wasn't theoretical: The French bombarded and occupied Vienna in 1809, he took cover in a cellar.
What is the name of the mozart divertimento?
❤Wonderful inreed.
❤inreed.
I loved this. But I really wish one of the titans of modern symphonic music would include the Pastoral in their explication. The very definition of changing moods, but with no battles--other than nature-- and it tuns out to be lit-giving.
6:53 someone has a sense of humor (whoopie cushion!)
Schubert complained that Beethoven did everything that could be done, and there was nothing left to do. So he copied him. That’s what I would have done. Thanks, Beethoven.
❤Indeed.
Really eloquent guy.
What articulation!!
Porfavor traduzcan o pongan títulos no todos sabemos idiomas y si nos interesamos en el querido betito
Slavoj Žižek of conductors.
A wonderfully illuminating and inspiring interview. But it isn’t entirely correct to say that Beethoven severed all connection between his Third Symphony and Napoleon. True enough, on hearing of Napoleon’s coronation, he tore up the title page - with its heading “Buonaparte”- in a fit of fury. But when the symphony appeared in print , the title (in Italian) still referred to Napoleon , though without naming him - “ Heroic Symphony in memory of a great man “.
Iván Fischer: trust me bro
Vrije Geluiden:
9.56 Floodgates opened the dam has burst.
A little more entertaining than educational, as it is willing to embrace the cliche for the sake of making a point (the aristocracy wasn't actually or even metaphorically dead, during Beethove's time, rather it paid his bills... and the orchestra of the premiere of the Eroica [there's a recording of the same size orchestra in the place it was premiered on NEOS (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001C58N60/nectarandambr-20) with Daniel Grossmann, for those interested] was rather smaller than that used for late Mozart Symphonies or Haydn's Paris or London symphonies... but yes, Fischer Iván is entertaining to watch and listen to. The same sparkle and enthusiasm that can be heard on many of his recordings.