Foreshadowing beethoven

ForeshadowingBeethoven The Saint Michael Trio

“Keep your eye on that one. Some day he will give the world plenty to talk about.”

Mozart, 1787

“ The genius of Mozart is still mourning over the death of her pupil. She found a refuge but no occupation with the inexhaustible Haydn. With the help of assiduous labor you shall receive: Mozart’s spirit from Haydn’s hands.”

Count Ferdinand Waldstein


F o r e s h a d o w i n g …

Struggle!

Beethoven’s Struggles

Physical

Emotional, psychological

Personal, artistic freedom

Liberty, human freedom

Beethoven’s Enlargements

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Drama, emotional intensity


My thoughts turn towards you my Immortal

Beloved, now and then happy, then sad again,

waiting whether fate might answer us—I can

only live either with you or not at all, yes I

have resolved to stray about in the distance,

until I can fly into your arms, and send my

soul embraced by you into the realm of the

Spirits—yes unfortunately it must be—you

will compose yourself all the more since you

know my faithfulness to you, never can

another own my heart, never—never.


O ye men who say I am

malevolent, stubborn or

misanthropic, how greatly

do ye wrong me! You do not

know the secret causes. I

am compelled to face the

prospect of a lasting

malady, compelled to

isolate myself, to live in

loneliness ...

How could I possibly admit

such an infirmity in the one

sense which should have been

more perfect in me than in

others, a sense which I once

possessed in highest

perfection, a perfection such

as few surely in my profession

enjoy …

Hearing nothing brought me

to the verge of despair and I

would have put an end to my

life – only art it was that

withheld me, as it seemed

impossible to leave the world

until I had produced all that I

felt called upon to produce.


“You, prince, are what you are through an accident of birth. I am what I have made of myself. There have been many princes and will be many more, but there is only one Beethoven.”


Spiritual

Foreshadowing beethoven