Sybreed - Reevolution (Syntax Airplay Edit)

In the solemn mass, he accepted both challenges from the "old masters". His masterpiece, his opus magnum, was to stand on a par with the mysterious, nowhere wholly sounded Mass of Bach, and with the widely known oratorio of Handel "Messiah". He himself wrote about these landmarks to Archduke Rudolph on July 29, 1819, speaking with great respect about all the old masters, but making an important reservation: "However, only the German Handel and Sebastian Bach possessed a genius among them." This was followed by reasoning, which can be set as an epigraph to all of Beethoven’s works: “The aim of the world of art, as well as of the whole great Creation, is freedom and progress. And if we - new ones - have not yet advanced as far in skill as our predecessors, then something has also been developed by the refinement of our manners. ”