All entriesBeethoven Poster Wanted.
I'm trying to find a poster of Ludwig van Beethoven for my wall at home.
Beethoven has long been one of my heros. I was attracted to his piano music as a young piano student and expanded into enjoying his symphonies and other works. As a disabled person myself, it is very inspiring to see someone overcome such a very huge obstacle as deafness to go on to produce what I consider some of the most beautiful works created. It is because of this that the 9th Symphony has grown to be my favorite work of his -- not only is the music and the text of the choral movement beautiful to me -- it is something that he composed while completely deaf.
It's because of this, I would love to have a poster with an image of Beethoven, perhaps some notes or sheet music, and some of the text (the original German, not a translation) of the Choral movement of the 9th. Obviously, I want something very specific. I've looked at allposters.com and several other online poster sites and I haven't found quite what I'm looking for. Does such a thing exist?
Since the likelihood is small of exactly what I want existing, is there a source where I can get high quality electronic images of Beethoven that I can freely use? I'd want to take a try at making something with The Gimp or Inkscape or something like that.
