Beethoven lands in Berlin, rants about his tenth symphony

Beethoven lands in Berlin, rants about his tenth symphony

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norman lebrecht

December 08, 2021

Playwright Moritz Rinke’s new work ‘A man who called himself Beethoven’ finds the composer landing in the ruins of Karajan’s Philharmonie, where he launches a diatribe against the data people who tried to complete his abandoned tenth symphony.

But he falls in love with a viola player and turns to writing heavy metal.

Just another night in German theatre.

Review here.

Comments

  • John Borstlap says:

    This seems to have been a thoroughly odlfashioned thing, from the rebellious sixties, when ‘Hochkultur’ was seen as an instrument of the bourgeoisie to suppress the pure simpletons of this world. It reads as a description of very old hippies who want to remain stuck forever in their juvenile phantasies.

    A courageous critic who isn’t afraid to be accused of ‘conservatism’ and just reacts with common sense.

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