#beethoven

It's really sad that the kids today can only relate to Beethoven via a rock version of his music. ↗

— Walter Murphy

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#his #kids #music #only #really

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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#beethoven #began #brahms #differently #hear

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing. ↗

— John Berryman

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#artists #beethoven #goya #literature #luck