Artist: Various Artists

Title: Beethoven Invents Jazz / Various

Condition: Used Very Good

Format: CD

Release Date: 2011

Label: Erato

UPC: 5099907092329

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Album Tracks

1. Ariatta (Excerpt)
2. Adagio Affetuoso (Excerpt)
3. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
4. Golliwogg's Cake-Walk
5. La Plus Que Lente
6. Blues
7. Allegretto Moderato
8. 113. Bulgarian Rhythm
9. Sebes
10. Brazileira
11. (Excerpt)
12. Kanonen-Song
13. (Excerpt)
14. I Got Rhythm
15. Prelude
16. Mambo
17. Divertimento: Blues
18. Allegro Non Troppo
19. Jazzartistrix
20. Caprice No. 24

Ludwig van Beethoven invented Jazz. That statement might seem enough to provoke a paroxysm from a musicologist, but, with a passage in his final piano sonata, Beethoven created the first example of pure swing in the history of music. We might also wonder how the serious-minded Johannes Brahms could open a sonata movement with a walking bass blues that smacks of the Mississippi Delta, or how Modest Mussorgsky, in his "Pictures at an Exhibition," foreshadows Quincy Jones. This album makes these extraordinary connections before exploring the profound influence of jazz on composers of the 20th century, from Maurice Ravel to Leonard Bernstein.