The ninth banzai B cache and because
Beethoven also composed 9 symphonies and loved to walk in nature,
this cache name was obvious. I take this opportunity to tell you
something about his symphonies … but there is no need to read it to
find the cache.
This is a nice, simple family walk (less than 5 km) in the
"Grotenhout" forest of Gierle. Take Exit 22, follow the small road
behind café "Het Laar". You will pass a small chapel and can
finally park at N51° 16.884 E04° 52.347 (crossing : Schoorstraat -
Grotenhout ).
The stash is hidden at N 51° 17.ABC and E04°52.DEF. So you need to
find 6 numbers to replace ABC DEF.
De negende banzai B cache en omdat
Beethoven ook 9 symfonieën schreef en daarenboven van de natuur
hield , verklaart de titel van deze cache. De informatie van zijn
symfonieën krijg je er zomaar bij maar hebben niets te maken dat
tot het vinden van de stach leidt.
Het is een mooie, eenvoudige familiewandeling in het Grotenhout
bos van Gierle. Neem afrit 22, sla de weg in achter café "Het
Laar". Volgen tot aan een kapelletje en parkeren kan op N51° 16.884
E04° 52.347 (kruispunt : Schoorstraat - Grotenhout ).
De stach is verstopt op N 51° 17.ABC and E04°52.DEF. Zoek de 6
cijfers om ABC DEF te vervangen.
WP1 : N51° 16.884 E04° 52.347
Please read the information board of the
Grotenhout forest nearby the entrace and find a first
tag.
Lees de informatie op het bord aan de ingang
en zoek het eerste tagje.
Symphony 1:
As Hollywood is today to the film industry,
so was Vienna to the music world in the past . This earliest of
Beethoven's symphonies premiered at the Hofburgtheater on April 2,
1800. From the very opening chord, to the concluding march-like
theme, which bore a marked resemblance to a German drinking song,
Beethoven colored an established musical genre with his own wry
wit.
WP2 : N 51° 17.045 E04° 52.404
"Uitgang Schoorstraat"
Symphony 2 : Beethoven's
hearing was failing quickly. He fell into the deepest of
depressions: : "It was not possible for me to say to men, 'Speak
louder, shout, for I am deaf!' Alas, how could I declare the
weakness of a sense which in me ought to be more acute than in
others .… In that last half of his life, Beethoven produced his
greatest compositions . Of all those works, none is more truly
heroic than the Second Symphony (April 5, 1803).
Symphony 3 : This piece had such a powerful impact on the
public, for it was inspired by one of the most powerful of men of
the day: Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1803 Beethoven complied with a
suggestion from the French ambassador to Vienna that he begin a
symphony honouring the "First Consul.". In 1804, Napoleon crowned
himself Emperor, and Beethoven, in a fury, ripped the title page
from the score. The symphony's new sub-title; "Eroica", premiered
in Vienna April 7, 1805.
WP3 : N 51° 17.059 E04°
52.949
A stump just over the ditch with an iron bar
in it; the stump and the oak hide a tag
Een stronk juist over de gracht met een
betonijzer in; the stronk en de eik hebben een (zelfde)
plaatje
Symphony 4 : Beethoven's
Fourth Symphony has suffered an unenviable fate, that of obscurity.
Standing as it does immediately after his heroic Third and just
before his tragic Fifth, it was "a slender Greek maiden between two
Norse gods.". The Fourth Symphony is filled with musical jokes. The
new symphony premiered in March of 1807.
WP4 : N51° 17.174 E04°
53.035
2 oak rafters as a bridge over a ditch. Find
the tag.
2 eiken balken over de gracht. Zoek het
plaatje.
Symphony 5 : December 22,
1808: one of the most significant concerts in all of music history.
He began the work around 1804. The Fifth Symphony has undergone
much analysis and those first four notes have drawn much of the
attention. Beethoven himself allegedly described them as "Fate
knocking at the door".
Symphony 6 : In the Beethoven's own words, "I love a tree
more than a man." Beethoven was always most at ease when
vacationing in the countryside, where he could take long solitary
walks through the fields and the woods. Although this love of
nature is heard in several Beethoven works, no piece is more
clearly in that spirit than this 'Pastorale'. The titles of each of
the Pastoral Symphony's five movements give a clear picture of what
the composer had in mind; "Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on
Arriving in the Country", "Scene by the Brook" …
WP5 : N51° 17.362 E04°
53.240
The house number of this building … =
A
Het huisnummer ... = A
Symphony 7 : 1811,
Beethoven's health was declining, and his growing deafness seemed
irreversible. He met one of the outstanding figures of German
culture, the writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The
Symphony was completed several months later. The composer himself
conducted the premiere in 1813. If anyone plays the Seventh, tables
and benches, cans and cups, the grandmother, the blind and the
lame, the children in the cradle fall to dancing.
WP6 N51° 17.410 E04° 53.030
(Water)
If you look at it from the sky it looks like
the number … = C
Vanuit de lucht lijkt dit op het cijfer ...
= C
Symphony 8 : Musicologists
have made much of the alternating moods of Beethoven symphonies.
The fact that the even-numbered ones tend to be light and bright
while the odd-numbered ones are grand and powerful. But the
tumultuous Fifth and the placid Sixth were on his desk at the same
time. The epic Seventh and the jolly Eighth also shared the drawing
board.
The cache : N 51° 17. A B C and E04°52. D E F
Find the concrete lid, near the road,
covered partly with 'nature'. And enjoy the trill of finding the
hidden stash.
Zoek het
beton deksel, vlak naast de weg, gedeeltelijk begroeid. Geniet van
de vreugde om de verborgen stash te vonden.
Symphony 9 : Vienna on May
7, 1824: it's a familiar tale, an aging Beethoven, ill and deaf,
conducting the orchestra and chorus in the premiere of his Ninth
Symphony, conducting even after they had ceased to perform, after
they had reached the end of the stunning new work, after the
audience had already begun to applaud. It was clear that he could
never have heard a note of this most magnificent composition.
Beethoven had first encountered Schiller's poem "An die Freude"
("To Joy") over thirty years before he completed the Ninth
Symphony. Ten years would pass before this final symphony's
completion, ten years in which Beethoven shed blood over every
note, considering and rejecting over two-hundred different versions
of the "Joy" theme alone.