Happy Beethoven's birthday
Dec. 16th, 2009 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacThe museum exhibit on Beethoven's biggest fan - Schroeder, the genius pianist from Charles Schulz' Peanuts - is now online. (I wrote about the brick-and-mortar version earlier. Here's the online copy of Beethoven's macaroni-and-cheese recipe that I mentioned there.)
The best way to go through this site is by clicking on the "Next [Page]" buttons in the lower left hand corner. Audio excerpts on the site allow you to, among other things, listen to the exact bars of music that Schroeder is shown playing in the strip. Now, perhaps, one may understand how having this beautiful music interrupted by trivial chatter from Lucy and others made Schroeder so irascible.
Recently I was leafing through David Michaelis' Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, a book obsessed with finding Schulz' personal life encoded in his strips. But as far as I could tell, there was nothing in this huge book about his love for music as reflected in Schroeder. That would show Schulz happy and fulfilled, you see, which would conflict with Michaelis' mission of depicting him as always frustrated and unhappy.
The best way to go through this site is by clicking on the "Next [Page]" buttons in the lower left hand corner. Audio excerpts on the site allow you to, among other things, listen to the exact bars of music that Schroeder is shown playing in the strip. Now, perhaps, one may understand how having this beautiful music interrupted by trivial chatter from Lucy and others made Schroeder so irascible.
Recently I was leafing through David Michaelis' Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, a book obsessed with finding Schulz' personal life encoded in his strips. But as far as I could tell, there was nothing in this huge book about his love for music as reflected in Schroeder. That would show Schulz happy and fulfilled, you see, which would conflict with Michaelis' mission of depicting him as always frustrated and unhappy.
