I like this video with the light show. It really shows how hard this piece is. Wish I could play this. I can't even read music that fast.

It shows how far ahead you have to think, and how fast you have to play…and it's ridiculous.

Beethoven was something else.

His music is so romantic and moody. And he could still write his music, some of his best, when he went deaf. How many people could write a symphony at all, much less while deaf?

300 years from now, what will people listen to? Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, the Dead, and who else?

The 'easy' ones: Moonlight 1st and, Pathetique 2nd which I finally finished, after about 8 weeks of 'lernin'

I've also been focusing on Rachmaninoff Prelude #2 in C# minor lately .... It's a slow process for me

Rach seems a little heavy though, maybe work on the Moonlight 2/3 first?