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“Now Mozart was dead. In part, Beethoven’s coming career as a composer would be predicated on having no real rival in his own generation.” (126)
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“He met extraordinary suffering with extraordinary endurance and courage. He needed that strength. Other than death itself, going deaf is the worst thing that can happen to a musician. That is easy to understand, terrible to bear.”
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By 1798, the first parts of a great puzzle were falling into place for him….The enlightened and revolutionary ideals of his childhood in Bonn, the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon, Haydn's masses [….] How could he lift his art to a new level, to the territory of scope and ambition where he had always expected it to live? How could he step out of the role of entertainer and into the stream of history?
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That’s an interesting point that I hadn’t considered before. Pretty much every other generation had multiple greats working at the same time — Haydn/Mozart in the preceding generation, and countless overlapping greats in the later 19th century and early 20th century. Strange that Beethoven stood alone! And what he did with that unique position is almost unbelievable…
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