Opeth - The Apostle In Triumph

The image of Beethoven as a “scientist” master of the German tradition is not quite familiar to the conventional wisdom about this composer. But he was an important part of his creative personality and was a subject of professional pride. Neither self-taught genius, nor the elemental destroyer of foundations, nor Beethoven was a romantic rebel. If he went against the rules, then he knew very well what exactly and for what reasons he was breaking. The joke told by Karl Czerny about a certain composer is known, in the composition of which Beethoven found unacceptable parallel fifths and pointed him to this student’s “lapsus”. He objected: but how, you also met such mistakes ... Beethoven snapped: “I can. You don’t. ”