[PROCON]

Beethoven answered, "Oh, I didn't write these quartets for you! I wrote these for a later generation."

Procon wrote: The latter generation is clueless, so who cares?!

[Publius]

I have to diaagree with you on that. Beethoven’s last quartets weren’t well understood until the early 20th Century, nearly a hundred years after his death. What made the difference was Wagner. Once people understood Wagner’s music, Beethoven’s last quartets suddenly made sense.