A General History of Music

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A General History of Music
Joseph Schlter
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While some regard them as the ne plits ultra of Beethoven's productions, and extol them as the onl^ correct standard worthy of future imitation, the great majority pronounce them un- intelligible, eccentric, and unpleasing. As usual, the truth lies between these extreme opinions.
♦ " Dein Eetligthum. " Note by the Translator. Sir E. B. Lytton's excellent rendering of the * Ode to Joy ' does not adapt itself to Beethoven's music, the metre being somewhat different from that of Schiller's poem. T
...he English version usually employed in connection with the choral Symphony deviates so widely from the original, that the effect alluded to in the text is entirely lost.
228 HISTORY OF MUSIC.
As in the later works of other men of genius, but especially Goethe, a vein of serious contem- plation verging on mysticism runs through these last compositions of Beethoven, supplanting, in great measure, the pathos and emotion which distinguish his earlier works, and replacing clear, well-defined melody by richly developed poly- phonous and contrapuntal plirases.


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