Beethoven's connection to historic Gaelic songs
Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Sanitised versions of Gaelic songs were reinterpreted by Beethoven without the great composer realising their true meaning, a new documentary has uncovered. The programme reveals Beethoven made classical arrangements of 47 Gaelic melodies from 1809 to 1820 for the Edinburgh-based folklore collector and publisher George Thomson. German musicologist and Gaelic scholar Dr Michael Klevenhaus spent five years researching the origins of the compositions. He became aware of the...
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