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That force of personality in Beethoven’s music is a result of a once-in-history level of compositional talent coexisting with a once-in-history level of stubbornness (or, to put more positively, idealism). This stubbornness - this refusal to accept things as they are, this will to imagine things as he wishes they were - is the greatest gift that comes from living full-time with Beethoven, and also the greatest source of frustration.

Jonathan Biss, “All over Beethoven” The Spectator 21 Dec 2019- 4 Jan 2020

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The old master has written pages which contain far more profound expression of the beauty of the countryside, simply because they give us no direct imitation, but instead a transposition for the sentiments of what is ‘invisible’ in nature.

Claude Debussy, on Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony (Pastoral).

trans. Peter Dayan, “On Nature, Music, and Meaning in Debussy’s Writing”

"Combien certaines pages du vieux maître contiennent d’expression plus profonde de la beauté d’un paysage, cela simplement parce qu’il n’y a plus d’imitation directe mais transposition sentimentale de ce qui est ‘invisible’ dans la nature."

#claude debussy#ludwig van beethoven#music#artist#artist quote#criticism#nature#about a work
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