Klarinet Archive - Posting 001208.txt from 1998/09

From: Neil Leupold <nleupold@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wagner
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:45:32 -0400

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:

> Wagner....gotta separate the man from his music.........
> The music is superb,sublime....
> The man...most of us would have hated him....
> And......who would have liked Beethoven?

If you've read his Heiligenstadt Testament, then you
know more closely Beethoven's inner turmoil and his
desire that people understand his nature. He did not
want to alienate others, but his deafness made social
interaction difficult and he lamented this fact in the
Testament.

Neil

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