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April 07, 2005
Beethoven Burns
A new Beethoven setting of a Burns song has been discovered and Tim Cornwell in the Scotsman reminds us that the Edinburgh publisher George Thomson commissioned many pieces of music by Haydn, Weber, Hummel and Beethoven, as well as text from the great Scottish writers, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Perhaps we should be taking a closer look at some of the music of Burns’s great contemporaries before anybody decides on a new Scottish national anthem? Maybe we can do a lot better than the mawkish ‘Flower of Scotland’ or the other songs suggested in a series on the Scotsman last year.
news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=366132005
Posted by Simon Holledge at April 7, 2005 04:32 PM
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