Originally posted by Joy:
Really enjoyed the above quote, Lysander. Here's another one not by Beethoven but by Schubert.
“Beethoven can do everything, but we cannot yet understand all that he does, and a lot of water will flow under the Danube bridges before this man’s creations are generally understood. Mozart’s relationship to Beethoven is like Schiller’s to Shakespeare, Schiller is already understood, but Shakespeare by no means. No one understands Beethoven unless he has a high share of intelligence and even more of feeling and has been very unhappy in love or in some other way”.
”If Schubert’s words are accurately reported, we have here one of the fundamental tenets of the Romantics, that unhappiness, because it forces a man to look into himself, is a key to the understanding of great art, and to be rated on a par with strong intelligence and an ability to feel deeply.”
Beethoven: The Last Decade
Really enjoyed the above quote, Lysander. Here's another one not by Beethoven but by Schubert.
“Beethoven can do everything, but we cannot yet understand all that he does, and a lot of water will flow under the Danube bridges before this man’s creations are generally understood. Mozart’s relationship to Beethoven is like Schiller’s to Shakespeare, Schiller is already understood, but Shakespeare by no means. No one understands Beethoven unless he has a high share of intelligence and even more of feeling and has been very unhappy in love or in some other way”.
”If Schubert’s words are accurately reported, we have here one of the fundamental tenets of the Romantics, that unhappiness, because it forces a man to look into himself, is a key to the understanding of great art, and to be rated on a par with strong intelligence and an ability to feel deeply.”
Beethoven: The Last Decade
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