Beethoven vs. Steibelt

it was his skill as a virtuoso pianist that propelled beethoven to fame in vienna within just a few years of his arrival he was already wildly popular as the city's foremost improviser contenders would spar in contests where each had to improvise on a well-known piece of music and to maintain his position beethoven had to see off the competition taking on the heavyweights of the european music scene a gentleman have beethoven tonight will meet more than his match i believe may i present the brilliant the hitherto unbeaten all the way from paris but don't hold that against him he's dexterous he's dashing he's debonair he's this you're daniel stable so so when you're gonna start join me and now i introduce the toast of our beloved vienna we know him we love him his finger work is finesse itself but is he the best let's find out hey ludwig one big helmet so so so bye you

Channel: Patrick Joiner

Views: 2,679,537

Keywords: Beethoven, Steibelt, piano

Id: qT8cBX893ic

Length: 4min 25sec (265 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 21 2013