[WesternCulture]

“No doubt, Beethoven was a musical genius.”

- This guy took a piece of great lyrics, put music to it and made the most admired symphony of all ages, while being DEAF - and you call him a “musical” genius.

I understand you don’t wish to offend, but please realize that Beethoven, Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci are like gods to us Europeans.

Leonardo wasn’t any other painter around, Einstein didn’t just fool around in Physics and Beethoven created so much more than music.

Beethoven understood what Shiller was on about and gave it all another dimension.

Greetings from Gothenburg, Sweden

[pyx]

This guy took a piece of great lyrics, put music to it and made the most admired symphony of all ages, while being DEAF - and you call him a “musical” genius.

Absolutely. Another example of Bach's musical genius is with the Prelude in C Major by JS Bach from the Well-Tempered Clavier.

This piece of music cycles through chords that are Major, Minor, Dominant 7th, Minor 7th, Slash chords, Dominant 7th b9th, Diminished and even Suspended 4ths. BWV 846-893 and dated 1722, THAT too is pure musical genius.

[ottbmare]

Now, now, don’t be offended. Beethoven was a musical genius—that is to say, he was a genius who expressed his understanding of reality through music, and enlarged us all in the process; there is no insult in the expression. Einstein expressed his genius and his understanding of reality through the mathematical formulae that expressed the general theory—it is the same principle. In both cases their work represents the study of a lifetime for most of us.