At 1:09 PM -0500 1/13/07, David W. Fenton wrote:
So, however widespread the admiration of Beethoven at his death, it was likely not based on the music he wrote in his last 10 years.
I was prepared to argue with this, but as I think about it, you're probably right. While we may consider those words--the late quartets, the 9th, and the incomparable Missa--his masterworks (and he did so consider the Missa), his musical contemporaries may well have questioned his sanity!
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