…of rediscovery now and some people have said who are you know serious musical scholars that he will one day rank with Beethoven. That might be an overvaluation. Anyway he's an interesting composer I've heard his music played and he wrote a book called I…

…enabled by a handle, that there's something about handle which is supportive for political revolution and not for other things. And Beethoven developed the romantic and the emotional in German Culture. This is spelled out in a book. Now if Cyril Scott were…

…result in an impedance, a resistance to imagination. So the creative imagination manifests most profoundly by people like Euler, like Beethoven like Wagner. This imagination should of course be functioning in everyone but people have a resistance to their own…

…think language is a limiting problem. I mean for example music can be written down in a language. You can get a score of Beethoven Symphonies or Mozart Piano concertos. I mean I can read music but for me it doesn't come to life from this language I…

…that one could not possibly generate out of one's own mind. Or if one could, then every single one of us is a Beethoven, is a Gilbert and Sullivan is a Shakespeare. And maybe that's true, but if that's true, that is empowering and worth knowing.…

…they would hear twelve live musical performances a year when they would go to a theater. I mean, how many people in Beethoven, how many experts on Beethoven in his generation or the generation following heard, let's say, the 9th Symphony more than several…

…performances a year when they would go to a theater. I mean, how many people in Beethoven, how many experts on Beethoven in his generation or the generation following heard, let's say, the 9th Symphony more than several times in their intellectual life?…

…to approximate this interior music. And I don't know if it's apocryphal or not, but I'm sure you all know the story of Beethoven saying, you know, if you could hear what I can hear, you wouldn't bother with what I've written because it's just compared…

…And there's a way of tuning your internal machinery in such a way that, you know, here comes Marie Antoinette or here comes Beethoven. But it isn't that Beethoven is a relative of yours, or still less that you were Beethoven. I mean, how likely is that,…

…tuning your internal machinery in such a way that, you know, here comes Marie Antoinette or here comes Beethoven. But it isn't that Beethoven is a relative of yours, or still less that you were Beethoven. I mean, how likely is that, for crying out loud?…

…Marie Antoinette or here comes Beethoven. But it isn't that Beethoven is a relative of yours, or still less that you were Beethoven. I mean, how likely is that, for crying out loud? It's simply that they're all there in some cultural super space and…

…It's simply that they're all there in some cultural super space and can be reached and called down. I mean, they're an idea. Beethoven is an idea. His grumpiness, the hands behind the back. We know Beethoven and so he lives in some kind of super space.…

…can be reached and called down. I mean, they're an idea. Beethoven is an idea. His grumpiness, the hands behind the back. We know Beethoven and so he lives in some kind of super space. And I think people are just much too literal. I have this trouble…