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BBC Documentary:  The Genius of Beethoven  (3 hours)   Highly Recommended !!! 

       Part 1:  The Rebel               Childhood & Early Period (1770 - 1804)  
        Part 2:  Love and Loss       Middle Period (1804 - 1814)   
        Part 3:  Faith and Fury      Late Period (1818 - 1827)


 Documentary  -  Being Beethoven (3 hours)

 Documentary  -  Beethoven: A Rebel that Changed the World  (42 minutes)

A&E Biography:  Beethoven  (45 minutes)


Beethoven Festival Online - In Search of Beethoven  (2:20)  Rent for $2.99 on Amazon.    

Documentary - Beethoven's Symphonies -  Paavo Järvi & Deutsche 
            Kammerphilharmonie Bremen - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4  (26 minutes each)


Documentary:  Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica (3rd symphony) 
                               Hosted my Michael Tilson Thomas  (55 mins, followed by a full 
                               performance of the symphony, 52 mins)


Movie about the premier of Beethoven's 3rd Symphony  (1 hour, 25 minutes)


Video:  Conductor Gerald Schwarz analyzes Beethoven's 5th Symphony  (31 min) 


Beethoven's 5th Symphony (First Movement) Explained  (1:24)


BBC Documentary  -   The Secrets of Beethoven's 5th Symphony   (90 min)


Jump to more Beethoven Video Documentaries            Jump to Other Video Documentaries


Beethoven's Music and Life:


     Beethoven Course:   Milestones in Beethoven's Composing Career

     Beethoven Course:   Beethoven's Late Period  (1816 - 1826)

     Beethoven Course:   A Beginner's Guide to Beethoven's Compositions

     Beethoven Course:   What are Opus numbers?

     Beethoven Course:   Beethoven's Compositions by Opus Number  (mostly chronological)

     Beethoven Course:   Beethoven's Music on Youtube

     Beethoven Course:   Ranking Beethoven's Solo Piano Works

     Beethoven Course:   Eras of Art in European History, 1000 - 1850 

     Beethoven Course:   People in Beethoven's Life & Era

     Beethoven Course:   Beethoven's Musical Contemporaries

     Beethoven Course:   Romanticism in the Moonlight Sonata

     Beethoven Course:   E.T.A. Hoffmann on Beethoven and Romanticism (1810)



Other Online Resources:


     Beethoven Course:   Musical Terms

     Beethoven Course:   Music Theory for Beginners

     Beethoven Course:   List of Course Talks

     Beethoven Course:   Short Examples of Romantic Poetry

     Beethoven Course:   Conductor Survey of the 20 Greatest Symphonies

     Classic FM Web Article:   The 25 Greatest Pianists Ever


Best Documentaries for this course:


About Beethoven and his music:




Video:  Listening to (Beethoven's) Symphonies  (1 hour, 23 min)

Video:   The Nature of Genius: Beethoven and the Sonata Form  (57 min) 

Video:   Daniel Barenboim - Master Class on Beethoven's Sonatas  (1 hr, 30 min)

Lecture:  Michael Parloff on String Quartets, Op. 130, 132, & Grosse Fugue  (1 hour)

Video:  Mitsuko Uchida compares Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 with Mozart's K. 503  (90 min)


Audio discussion  -  The Story of Beethoven's 9th  (59 min)

Playlist to 3 different documentaries on Beethoven  (from 45 to 60 minutes each) 

Audio Talks:  All 32 Beethoven piano sonatas by pianist András Schiff



More course related documentaries:


The following three video documentaries are about English romantic poets only,
          but are applicable to most arts in early 19th century western Europe...

The Romantics: Nature  (1 hour)     The one to watch if you only watch 1 of the 3.

The Romantics: Visions of Eternity  (1 hour) 

The Romantics: Liberty  (1 hour)


3 Part BBC Documentary:  The Genius of Mozart  (3 hours total)


Leonard Bernstein's Young Peoples' Concerts

BBC Documentary:  Joseph Haydn  (1 hour)

Howard Goodall's 5 Big Bangs:  #4, The Piano:  It's History and Impact  (1:00)


History Channel Documentary:  The French Revolution  (2015)  (2 hours)

French Revolution: Tearing Up History (The transformation of art during the Revolution)  (1:00)

Audio Talks:  All 32 Beethoven piano sonatas by pianist András Schiff



Some online readings and other resources that should be helpful:

Wiki Article:  Beethoven Biography    

Wiki Article:  A Complete List of Beethoven's Compositions

Encyclopedia Britannica:  Beethoven 

NPR Article:  Beethoven's 4 Notes: Truly Revolutionary Music

Article:  Beethoven's Piano Sonatas: John Suchet's guide to the music

Article:  Beethoven's String Quartets: John Suchet's guide to the music

Article:  Beethoven's Late String Quartets: Music of the Future 


Wiki Article:  Classical Music (1750 - 1820)
Wiki Article:  Romantic Music (1780 - 1910)
Wiki Article:  European Classical Music (full history)
Wiki Article:  Opera
Wiki Article:  List of Symphonies by Key 

Wiki Article:  German History Timeline  
Wiki Article:  Overview of the History of Germany
Wiki Article:  18th Century German History

Wiki Article:  The Age of Enlightenment
Wiki Article:  List of Enlightenment Intellectuals   

Wiki Article:  Classicism
Wiki Article:  Neoclassical (the arts)  
Wiki Article:  Classical Republicanism

Wiki Article:  Romanticism
Wiki Article:  German Romanticism 
Wiki Article:  French Romanticism

Wiki Article:  History of German Architecture


Wiki Article:  The Holy Roman Empire
Wiki Article:  List of states in the Holy Roman Empire 
Wiki Article:  Gothic Revival Architecture (19th century)

Wiki Article:  The War of Austrian Succession

Wiki Article:  The Seven Years' War

Wiki Article:  The French Revolution

Wiki Article:  Timeline of the French Revolution
Wiki Article:  The French Revolutionary Wars
Wiki Article:  Who's Who in the French Revolution.
Wiki Article:  Glossary of the French Revolution.

Wiki Article:  Napoléon Bonaparte biography
Wiki Article:  The Napoleonic Wars
Wiki Article:  The Napoleonic Code
  

Wiki Article:  The Confederation of the Rhine (1806)
Wiki Article:  The German Confederation (1815-1866) 
Wiki Article:  States of the German Confederation

Wiki Article:  German Nationalism
Wiki Article:  History of Socialism  

Wiki Article:  The Revolutions of 1830 (including the "July Revolution" in France)
Wiki Article:  The Revolutions of 1848 w/ links to specific revolutions (Italy, Austria, Hungary, Ireland, etc)
Wiki Article:  The 1848-1849 German Revolutions
Wiki Article:  The 1848 French Revolution

Smithsonian Article:  The Real-Life Places that Inspired Frankenstein
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Audio Book:  Shelley, Mary.  Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus  (8.5 hours).

Audio Book:  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.  The Sorrows of Young Werther  (4.75 hours) 

Audio Book:  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.  Faust -  Part 1

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