Mark Lindley

Features

Beethoven and Gandhi: Two of Their Admirers

Two of Mahatma Gandhi’s most effective foreign disciples during his lifetime were great admirers of Beethoven. One of them was a Nobel laureate and a former university professor (at the Sorbonne) of music history, Romain Rolland (1866-1944). He told Gandhi, in 1931, “You are the greatest

Music Education

Guide to a Tonal Analysis of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony

Excerpts – including a quasi-analytical reduction in musical notation – from a lecture given by Mark Lindley on April 15th, 2008 at Bilkent University. The reduction of the first movement was played on a piano and was followed visually by the students while hearing simultaneously a recording of a proper orchestral performance.