PrintThe sculpture “Masterpieces of Music” …
... consists of a total of six musical notes, three crochets and three quavers.
... because of its static forces and geometrical design is far and away the most compli-cated construction of all the six sculptures in the “Walk of Ideas”.
Each individual note ...
... consists of two parts, the circular dot and the upright line (the “belly” and the “neck”).
... is 8 metres tall, 5.4 metres long, and 2.1 metres wide.
Facts and figures on the first and biggest musical notes made of Neopor®
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... weighs a total of 8.6 tonnes (the quavers)
... consists of a steel skeleton construction, more than 300 square metres of glass fibre laminate, and more than 30 cubic metres of Neopor® foam.
... has a lacquered surface of about 26 square metres.
... required the work of more than 100 people from the original planning to its construc-tion and erection.
... was designed by young designers in the Scholz & Friends advertising agency.
... is made of an innovative material, Neopor®, developed by BASF AG as the insulat-ing material of the future. The invention of Neopor® has made it possible to build the energy-conserving “100 miles to the gallon” house.
... is covered in a new kind of triple-layer metal lacquer developed by BASF Coatings AG in Münster.
... was built by the firm of EDAG, which specialises in the field of engineering and graphic design.
... consists of a steel skeleton construction, more than 300 square metres of glass fibre laminate, and more than 30 cubic metres of Neopor® foam.
... has a lacquered surface of about 26 square metres.
... required the work of more than 100 people from the original planning to its construc-tion and erection.
... was designed by young designers in the Scholz & Friends advertising agency.
... is made of an innovative material, Neopor®, developed by BASF AG as the insulat-ing material of the future. The invention of Neopor® has made it possible to build the energy-conserving “100 miles to the gallon” house.
... is covered in a new kind of triple-layer metal lacquer developed by BASF Coatings AG in Münster.
... was built by the firm of EDAG, which specialises in the field of engineering and graphic design.
Did you know that...
... there are in state music schools in Germany about 900,000 students who are being taught by some 35,000 teachers?
(Source: German Music Council: State Yearbook of the Music Schools in Germany, Bonn, 2006)
... Bach often inserted the notes “B-A-C-H” into his compositions? (In German notation, b-flat is “H”.) His “ars fugae” is even based on this theme.
(Source: Wolfgang Wiemer: “The Restoration of Order in Johann Sebastian Bach’s “ars fugae”, Wiesbaden, 1977)
... Bach dedicated a special piece, the “Coffee Cantata”, to the drink that in his day had advanced to the position of a controversial fashion drink?
(Source: Franz Rueb, 48 Variations on Bach, Leipzig, 2000)
(Source: German Music Council: State Yearbook of the Music Schools in Germany, Bonn, 2006)
... Bach often inserted the notes “B-A-C-H” into his compositions? (In German notation, b-flat is “H”.) His “ars fugae” is even based on this theme.
(Source: Wolfgang Wiemer: “The Restoration of Order in Johann Sebastian Bach’s “ars fugae”, Wiesbaden, 1977)
... Bach dedicated a special piece, the “Coffee Cantata”, to the drink that in his day had advanced to the position of a controversial fashion drink?
(Source: Franz Rueb, 48 Variations on Bach, Leipzig, 2000)
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... numerous pop and jazz musicians have arranged and varied Bach? They include the jazz pianist Jacques Loussier with his “Play Bach Trio”, the Beatles (“Penny Lane”), and the Procol Harum band ("A Whiter Shade of Pale”):
(Source: Loussier: Süddeutsche Zeitung on 5 July 2005, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 17 August 2002; Procol Harum in: Geo, 07.2001)
... Beethoven is “guilty” of determining the normal playing time of a CD? The head of Sony at the time, Norio Ohga, laid down the law that a CD should be able to contain Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in its full length. So people went looking for the longest-playing recording of this work and came across one made by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1951, which lasted a whole 74 minutes.
(Source: www.sony.net; www.research.philips.com)
... Beethoven lacked a proper school education and could not do arithmetic? Even at an advanced old age he needed remedial teaching from his nephew.
(Source: Martin Geck, Ludwig van Beethoven, Reinbek, 2001)
... Brahms' First Symphony is in formal terms so close that it has been called “Beethoven’s Tenth”?
(Source: Statement by Hans von Bülow, Neue Züricher Zeitung – Swiss daily newspaper, on 1 March 2003)
(Source: Loussier: Süddeutsche Zeitung on 5 July 2005, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 17 August 2002; Procol Harum in: Geo, 07.2001)
... Beethoven is “guilty” of determining the normal playing time of a CD? The head of Sony at the time, Norio Ohga, laid down the law that a CD should be able to contain Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in its full length. So people went looking for the longest-playing recording of this work and came across one made by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1951, which lasted a whole 74 minutes.
(Source: www.sony.net; www.research.philips.com)
... Beethoven lacked a proper school education and could not do arithmetic? Even at an advanced old age he needed remedial teaching from his nephew.
(Source: Martin Geck, Ludwig van Beethoven, Reinbek, 2001)
... Brahms' First Symphony is in formal terms so close that it has been called “Beethoven’s Tenth”?
(Source: Statement by Hans von Bülow, Neue Züricher Zeitung – Swiss daily newspaper, on 1 March 2003)
Quotations
“He should not be called ‘Bach’ (which means a ‘brook’) but ‘Meer’ (which means the ‘sea’).”
Ludwig van Beethoven (Source: www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de)
“What I have to say about the life’s work of Bach is this: Listen, play, love, admire – and keep your mouth shut!”
Albert Einstein (Source: Opinion survey in an illustrated weekly magazine, Illustrierte Wochenschrift, 1928)
“Bach is the beginning and end of all music,”
Max Reger (Source: www.thueringer-bachwochen.de)
“Bach is the father, we’re the boys. If any of us can do anything well, it’s because we’ve learned it from him.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Source: www.jenakolleg.de)
“Bach’s musical significance lies in the unification of past and future: he has aggregated all that was present and shown the way into new forms. Looked at this way, he was a true revolutionary.”
Daniel Barenboim (Source: Interview in a Sunday newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, on 26 April 2006)
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (Source: Götzen-Dämmerung, 1889)
"Music is the stenography of feeling."
Leo Tolstoy (Source: Speech on 12 June 1905)
Ludwig van Beethoven (Source: www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de)
“What I have to say about the life’s work of Bach is this: Listen, play, love, admire – and keep your mouth shut!”
Albert Einstein (Source: Opinion survey in an illustrated weekly magazine, Illustrierte Wochenschrift, 1928)
“Bach is the beginning and end of all music,”
Max Reger (Source: www.thueringer-bachwochen.de)
“Bach is the father, we’re the boys. If any of us can do anything well, it’s because we’ve learned it from him.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Source: www.jenakolleg.de)
“Bach’s musical significance lies in the unification of past and future: he has aggregated all that was present and shown the way into new forms. Looked at this way, he was a true revolutionary.”
Daniel Barenboim (Source: Interview in a Sunday newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, on 26 April 2006)
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (Source: Götzen-Dämmerung, 1889)
"Music is the stenography of feeling."
Leo Tolstoy (Source: Speech on 12 June 1905)
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