Memes and such

Musical Chairs

The story is here: https://www.cmuse.org/mozart-midnight-masterpiece-don-giovanni-overture/

Scientists discover blue whale song is Beethoven’s Ninth(Discover Wildlife)

Marine biologists have analysed a body of blue whale recordings to discover one pod has been mimicking Beethoven’s Ode to Joy for 30 years...

May I just point out that this was published on 1st April...

>3 John5918: Cute!

Sergei Rachmaninov with Arturo Toscanini

Pic from the Ludwig van Beethoven FB page

>5 Tess_W:

Sadly, your image does not display for me (at least).

>2 Tess_W:

As I understand it, Mozart referred to the initial writing of a score as "copying" because he heard his music complete and fully orchestrated in his mind, and thus copied that out onto paper.