[ichabod1]

See, I don’t like that, Locke. Wagner’s music is so glorious it MUST have come from God, regardless of how man has twisted it. Beethoven was well known to be an a-hole but he wrote the music of the angels.

[Ed Hudgins]

I don’t attribute beauty — in music or other arts — to a god but to the individuals who create the art. Wagner’s and Beethoven’s music is indeed glorious but let’s give them credit.

By the way, since you mention “music of the angels,” see my discussion of Beethoven using that phrase as well in this piece:

http://www.objectivistcenter.org/ct-1835-secular_spirit.aspx