This may have been discussed to death elsewhere, but perhaps it should be resurrected. Which was Beethoven?
There are valid arguments on both sides, but I would put him in the Romantic camp. He, taking the forms of the old masters, created music with sheer size and power like none before him. He said, "It is a good thing to know the rules in order to know what is contrary to them," but in his music he knew when to follow the rules and when to flout them. And most of the later Romantics acknowledged him as their forebear.
Different opinions? With proofs?
There are valid arguments on both sides, but I would put him in the Romantic camp. He, taking the forms of the old masters, created music with sheer size and power like none before him. He said, "It is a good thing to know the rules in order to know what is contrary to them," but in his music he knew when to follow the rules and when to flout them. And most of the later Romantics acknowledged him as their forebear.
Different opinions? With proofs?
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