Beethoven For Free
May 16th, 2008
I was searching Amazon.com for a particular Beethoven album that I lost many years ago. It had a great presto piano concerto from Sonata No.7 (very fast piano playing) and I was jones-ing to listen. I found the cd I was looking for and examined the option to buy it used for $5 but paused to think; shouldn’t this music be public domain and basically free? After all Sug Knight wasn’t around to shake down Beethoven or Mozart. I did a quick search on public domain Beethoven music and found Musopen.com which has a large collection of freely downloadable classical music. True, the performances here aren’t by the London Pops but it’s not bad if you’re just looking for a few piano sonatas or a casual listener. Heck, you can even follow along and print the Beethoven sheet music. Here’s a link to a couple of my favorites:
Moonlight Sonata (also known as the theme song for the 1985 PC game Thexder)
Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3
Enjoy!
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