So Stockhausen gets this letter from Beethoven
mainThe Brahms Institute of Lübeck reports an important find.
In a job lot of 20 boxes of musicalia bequeathed by a deceased music tracher, it has found an original letter by Beethoven. It is dated 1823 and mailed to Paris, addressed to a Herr Stockhausen.
As usual, Beethoven complains about his health and living conditions. He does not, sadly, offer analysis or criticism of Gruppen.
This post and the other one with the orchestral snowball fight both made me laugh. I would love to write a letter from Beethoven to Stockhausen! The humorous possibilities abound. But in the meantime, I was inspired to do a post on musical humor which you can find here:
http://themusicsalon.blogspot.com/2012/01/musical-humor.html