| There was a short, pocked-faced,
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| | few people fluent in both languages, most
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| plain-looking man walking the streets of
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| | music geniuses have not been great
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| Vienna in the early 19th century. No
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| | mathematicians and vice versa; Beethoven
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| wonder all women he proposed to rejected
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| | often struggled with basic arithmetic.
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| him and so he remained single all his
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| | Furthermore Joseph Haydn, the father of
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| life. The poor thing! As a boy, much to
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| | the string quartet, considered it as
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| the chagrin of his father, he showed no
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| | great conversations with nature. And
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| signs of being a child prodigy; he was
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| | many scholars consider the string quartet
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| often crying, as he was forced by his
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| | as the pressure cooker of music, the most
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| father to play the piano.
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| | demanding musical genre, the brightest
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| And yet most scholars, musicians, and
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| | jewel in the crown of music. It is by
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| music lovers worldwide would agree with
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| | far the best medium to write absolute
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| this statement: "A universal genius
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| | music.
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| widely regarded as the greatest composer
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| | Moreover Beethoven spent the last two and
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| who ever lived, Ludvig van Beethoven
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| | a half years of his life writing nothing
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| dominates a period of musical history as
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| | but string quartets-Opuses 127, 130, 131,
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| no one else before or since."
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| | 132, and 135-when he was totally cut off
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| (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume 14, p
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| | from society because he was stone-deaf.
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| 737a)
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| | Doesn't this fact tell us something? He
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| Music scholars and composers consider
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| | was sensing that his life on this
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| these music genres as the main ones:
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| | gorgeous planet was coming to an end; he
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| piano sonata, piano concerto, violin
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| | loved nature deeply and took long walks
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| concerto, opera, mass, symphony, and
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| | to gather musical ideas, which he jotted
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| string quartet. Most scholars would
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| | down using a carpenter's pencil. So he
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| agree with my evaluation here:
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| | zeroed in on the most beautiful medium,
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| Best piano sonata ever: Beethoven's Piano
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| | the string quartet, to express abstract,
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| Sonata No 29 in Bb, Opus 106,
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| | concise, beautiful musical ideas.
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| "Hammerklavier" (1817-18)
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| | Therefore "The five late string quartets
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| Best piano concerto ever: Beethoven's
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| | contain Beethoven's greatest music, or so
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| Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb, Opus 87,
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| | at least many listeners in the 20th
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| "Emperor" (1809)
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| | century came to feel." (The New Grove
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| Best violin concerto ever: Beethoven's
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| | Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second
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| Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61 (1806)
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| | Edition, 2001, Volume 3, p 106a)
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| Best opera ever: Mozart's Don Giovanni.
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| | Thus to me Beethoven is the greatest
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| But Beethoven's Fidelio, Opus 72
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| | composer ever and his String Quartet No
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| (c1803-05; 1814), follows very closely.
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| | 14 is the greatest piece of music of all
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| Best mass ever: Beethoven's Missa
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| | time. "...Beethoven next wrote the most
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| Solemnis in D, Opus 123 (1819-23)
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| | closely integrated of all his large
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| Best symphony ever: Beethoven's Symphony
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| | compositions. From this point of view,
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| No 9 in d, Opus 125, "Choral" (1822-24),
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| | the Quartet of C# minor op. 131 may be
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| or his Symphony No 5 in c, Opus 67
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| | seen as the culmination of his
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| (1807-08)
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| | significant effort as a composer ever
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| Best string quartet ever: String Quartet
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| | since going to Vienna. The seven
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| No 14 in c#, Opus 131 (1826).
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| | movements [c#-D-(b)-A-E-g#-c#] run
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| The string quartet is my favorite music
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| | continuously into one another, and for
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| genre because it's the most concise and
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| | the first time in Beethoven's music there
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| elegant of all music genres-it expresses
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| | is an emphatic and unmistakable thematic
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| deep thoughts and ideas in a few phrases,
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| | connection between the first movement and
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| just as mathematics expresses the deep
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| | the last-not a reminiscence, but a
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| secrets of the universe using a few
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| | functional parallel which helps bind the
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| symbols. The languages of music and
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| | whole work together. A work of the
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| mathematics have the same ground of
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| | deepest subtlety and beauty....
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| being. But even though there have been a
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