The Dial, Volume 2Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley Weeks, Jordan, and Company, 1842 - Transcendentalism A magazine for literature, philosophy, and religion. |
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... Beethoven speak of Goethe on an occasion which brought out the two characters in strong contrast . Extract from a letter of Beethoven to Bettina Brentano , Töplitz , 1812 . ' Kings and Princes can indeed make Professors and Privy ...
... Beethoven speak of Goethe on an occasion which brought out the two characters in strong contrast . Extract from a letter of Beethoven to Bettina Brentano , Töplitz , 1812 . ' Kings and Princes can indeed make Professors and Privy ...
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... Beethoven's conduct with regard to the famous Heroic Symphony . This was composed at the sugges- tion of Bernadotte , while Napoleon was still in his first glory . He was then the hero of Beethoven's imagina- tion , who hoped from him ...
... Beethoven's conduct with regard to the famous Heroic Symphony . This was composed at the sugges- tion of Bernadotte , while Napoleon was still in his first glory . He was then the hero of Beethoven's imagina- tion , who hoped from him ...
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... BEETHOVEN . THE lives of the musicians are imperfectly written for this obvious reason . The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music . This language is so much more ready , flexible , full , and rapid than any other ...
... BEETHOVEN . THE lives of the musicians are imperfectly written for this obvious reason . The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music . This language is so much more ready , flexible , full , and rapid than any other ...
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... Beethoven , towering far above our heads , still with colos- sal gesture points above . Music is pausing now to ex- plain , arrange , or explore the treasures so rapidly accumu- lated ; but how great the genius thus employed , how vast ...
... Beethoven , towering far above our heads , still with colos- sal gesture points above . Music is pausing now to ex- plain , arrange , or explore the treasures so rapidly accumu- lated ; but how great the genius thus employed , how vast ...
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... Beethoven , when so completely deaf , that he could neither tune his violin and piano , nor hear the horrible discords he made upon them , stimulated himself continually by the manual utter- ance to evolution of the divine harmonies ...
... Beethoven , when so completely deaf , that he could neither tune his violin and piano , nor hear the horrible discords he made upon them , stimulated himself continually by the manual utter- ance to evolution of the divine harmonies ...
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