Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.
Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.
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 symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.