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Beethoven; with a supplement from the philosophical works of Arthur Schopenhauer ;
Beethoven with a supplement from the philosophical works of Arthur Schopenhauer Author:Richard Wagner uT appears difficult to gJve a sati:;(actory U account of the true relation a great artist bears towards his nation, and the difficulty is cnhanced to the highest degree as soon as one attempts to speak, not of a poet or a plastic artist, but of a musician. In judging of poets and plastic artists, the fact has probably never been lost sight of t... more »hat the manner in which they take co~nisallce of the e:vents and the forms of the vorld is, in the main, determined by the particular nature of the nation to which they belong-. The language in which a poet writes "'ill colour the perceptions he puts forth, and the peculiarities of his country and its people will.lssuredJy, in no less degree, modify a plastic arti5t's form and coloUJ. But neither by speech nor by any visible shaF~ of his land and his peoplc is a musician connected with the onc or the other. It has, thercfore, been assumed that the language of tones belongs equally to all mell, and A
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