Beethoven was a genius. It's kind of hard to grasp what about him makes his music so good... like any kid plinking at the piano could probably accidentally play Ode To Joy. Bernstein probably has the best analysis of Beethodevn, Beethoven wasn't a great melodist or harmonist, he couldn't write a great fugue, but the one thing he was the GOAT for was "every following note is exactly the right note." And that's all it takes.
There's a really prolific mathematician called Erdos (pronounced erdish, much as Euler is pronounced oiler and essentially every great mathematicians name is a little confusing haha!). Erdos had this metaphor for a really great proof, "The Book of God." For Erdos, proofs in the Book of God were the most succinct, most natural, most tractable, most intuitive, etc. Every once in a while in studying math, you encounter a truly perfect proof - sometimes they were made thousands of years ago like Euclid's proof of the infinitude of prime numbers.
All of Beethoven's music are probably in "The Score of God." Every once in a while someone will come along with, between natural ability and dogged persistence, that creates works that are just perfect. Beethoven was one of them. Shakespeare too, Li Bai, Abu Ma'shar, Emmy Noether, all of these people. Honestly, throw Marx and Mao in there too.
Beethoven was a genius. It's kind of hard to grasp what about him makes his music so good... like any kid plinking at the piano could probably accidentally play Ode To Joy. Bernstein probably has the best analysis of Beethodevn, Beethoven wasn't a great melodist or harmonist, he couldn't write a great fugue, but the one thing he was the GOAT for was "every following note is exactly the right note." And that's all it takes.
There's a really prolific mathematician called Erdos (pronounced erdish, much as Euler is pronounced oiler and essentially every great mathematicians name is a little confusing haha!). Erdos had this metaphor for a really great proof, "The Book of God." For Erdos, proofs in the Book of God were the most succinct, most natural, most tractable, most intuitive, etc. Every once in a while in studying math, you encounter a truly perfect proof - sometimes they were made thousands of years ago like Euclid's proof of the infinitude of prime numbers.
All of Beethoven's music are probably in "The Score of God." Every once in a while someone will come along with, between natural ability and dogged persistence, that creates works that are just perfect. Beethoven was one of them. Shakespeare too, Li Bai, Abu Ma'shar, Emmy Noether, all of these people. Honestly, throw Marx and Mao in there too.
It still amazes me that he composed many of his best works while he was 100% freaking deaf.
What the fuck
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