foreshadowing beethoven
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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
ForeshadowingBeethoven The Saint Michael Trio
F o r e s h a d o w i n g …
Struggle!
Beethoven’s Struggles
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Emotional, psychological
Personal, artistic freedom
Liberty, human freedom
Beethoven’s Enlargements
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Beethoven’s Enlargements
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Drama, emotional intensity
ForeshadowingBeethoven The Saint Michael Trio
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.
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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.
ForeshadowingBeethoven The Saint Michael Trio
“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.”
ForeshadowingBeethoven The Saint Michael Trio