Beethoven loved a lot of women and was never out of love. After Beethoven’s death the love letter of Beethoven was found among his documents. The given letter is very popular and frequently referred to in television, movies and advertisements. There is no name and address of the person to whom it was meant. No one knows the year when it was written and whether it was sent or not. The only thing that is known is that the letter was written on the sixth and seventh of July. This letter shows another side of Beethoven. And if you have not read it you will get a real pleasure by reading it.

One of the most respected American chamber groups, the Julliard String Quartet, carried out a parting concert before great auditorium at Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday. The group will continue its activity, but in smaller structure. The first violinist Joel Smirnoff is parting the group to grow the president of Institute of Music in Cleveland. The group was forming a little bit longer than ten years. Although its performances seem to be rough, the latter are always lively and impressive. The group started its performance with “Quartet in E flat” composed by Mendelssohn to honor the two hundred year’s anniversary of that composer.

To perform classical music the performers have to have profound knowledge of musical forms, trends, styles. They have to be able to play in groups and comprehend their part in the whole composition. Performers should be aware of the style peculiar to the period when the composition was composed. Classical music requires that the performers develop, change keys, harmonize and phrase thematically. That is why performing classical music is so complicated. Such large musical forms as operas and symphonies as a rule exhibit a hierarchy of lesser parts.