Picasso, "Woman with Mandolin" 1910 The symphonies of Beethoven are to me the greatest artistic creation in the history of mank...

Picasso: "Bottle, Guitar, and Pipe" Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany I've posted about my sequenced "rock" transcr...

Remember when I posted the "The Weirdest Piano Concerto Arrangements You'll Love Vol.1" ? Well here's Volume 2...hope you...

© All Rights Reserved by MikeBarnett Having posted previously about composers "rewriting Beethoven" ( Bartok , Rachmaninoff...

Though I have posted a good chunk of my own sequenced versions of Beethoven's works arranged/transcribed for guitar, there are of course...

Nicolo Paganini , by Richard James Lane (died 1872), published 1831 Thought I'd divert from Beethoven today to post some of my guitar...

“Guitar” (1914) ferrous sheet metal and wire" MoMA © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso The Weirdest Piano Concerto Arrangements You'l...

There's nothing more educational (for me, at least) than to post about Beethoven every single day - but a close second would arranging h...

As part of his compositional studies (which he continued his entire life) Beethoven would copy out works such as this one, Mozart's Fugu...

Beethoven's Elegischer Gesang Op. 118 has the unusual instrumentation of chorus and string quartet.  Though it's more commonly perf...

YOUNG BEETHOVEN (Lladró Porcelain Figures)  One of my favorite finds on the Unheard Beethoven site is the early Symphony in C minor whic...

Yesterday I featured my sequenced arrangements of some of Beethoven's song lieder in the form of guitar and clarinet duos.  This time I ...

Recently I've been having some more fun with sequencing Beethoven compositions - this time rearranging vocal lieder from the original pi...

As readers of The Daily Beethoven should know by now, I'm a sucker for orchestral arrangements of chamber and solo works - and apparentl...

One of the best Beethoven-related sites around is the Unheard Beethoven site.  The people there have cataloged pretty much every Beethoven ...

Rocking on the (Musical) Beach Chair Beethoven's Opus 49 Piano Sonatas were first published in 1805 and are numbered Sonatas 19 and 2...

Well, being that today is April Fool's Day, I feel somewhat less inhibited than normal to post some of my more outlandish Beethoven ...

African Slider Guiro - Ghana Shaker Beethoven never visited the African continent or any other truly exotic tourist destinations in his l...

About a month ago I posted Margaret Leng Tan's performance of the 1st movement of the Moonlight Sonata on toy pianos.  So when I recent...

Yesterday was the color chart/video of Opus 130, and since the Grosse Fugue was originally the grand finale of Opus 130 it seems necessary t...