Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.
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Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.
Beethoven's fourth and seventh symphonies have a certain amount in common. Well, of course they're both written by Beethoven, but besides that, I would say their overall effect and idea is to provide the listener with an incredible sense of joy.
The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.
In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them. I can see that through them came Wagner and Mahler and Schoenberg and Berg. And then came Tracey Emin. And I can see it all as one downward path.
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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