Talk:Beethoven's musical style

Rewrite
This article was shocking bad and I am undertaking a complete rewrite. Help appreciated! Eusebeus (talk) 20:42, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

It still is pretty bad. Many of the paragraphs are taken straight from other websites. Anyone up for editing out this plagiarism? 75.69.129.180 (talk) 22:11, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Where's the middle period? 9 Dec. 2009  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.95.18.45 (talk) 10:45, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Middle Period
I'm compiling a project in school on Beethoven and turned to the main article on Beethoven for information on his middle period. Are there plans to put anything about this into this article here? Because it seems like there ought to be :P FrankyBabes (talk) 14:55, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Phase 1
Lede + explication of the Three periods + Bonn

- Why does it say at the end of the Vienna period: "when he was young he worked at the chum bucket."? Is this some form of internet sabotage? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.28.177.57 (talk) 08:39, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, it is (well, now was) garden-variety Wikipedia vandalism.  Magic ♪piano 12:16, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Second paragraph
I can't see why it was necessary to undo my edit to the second paragraph. The old paragraph implied that Beethoven was merely a transitional figure between the Classical and Romantic eras, and that he was never a Romantic composer.

What about my edit is considered "inaccurate"? In addition, as far as I know, the paragraph said that Mendelssohn rebelled against the style of Beethoven, which is of course not the case, as Mendelssohn's compositions are similar to Beethoven's middle and late compositions, rather than radically different.

To imply that Beethoven was not a Romantic composer is just like implying that The Beatles were not a rock band, but merely a hard pop group! 69.121.17.200 (talk) 20:00, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

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(Yet Another) Rewrite
Honestly, this page still needs some major renovation. There is nothing on Beethoven's early Viennese style (1792-ca.1803) nor his late style. There are paragraphs of content without citations, and paragraphs which really belong in other sections. I'm intending to do some major rewrites relying first on articles from Grove Music Online (which I have access to via my library card) plus my copy of Charles Rosen's The Classical Style, and then finding more sources as my writing progresses. My plan is as follows:

1) Rewrite the existing sections to make the sections more concise 2) Relocate some paragraphs to better sections within sections, or to entirely new sections if need be 3) Add more cited sources (or rewrite to include content that can be cited from sources) 4) Write the aforementioned missing sections (with citations) 5) Add musical examples/images (trying to rely on public domain sources for these whenever possible)

If any other editors have any suggestions, I'm very happy to discuss them. In addition, if you find relevant sources not mentioned by me, then feel free to add relevent content to this article with those sources.

A link to the last revision before my edits is here as a starting point to keep track of the progress: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beethoven%27s_musical_style&oldid=1002999832

FlushedTable (talk) 15:53, 7 April 2021 (UTC)