Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique

[hobozeller]

Seeing, feeling, and eventually comminicating the beauty of a piece of music is an exercise in interpreting a composer's interpretation adn expression of emotion. General sadness or general ecstacy is not written about - it is not possible to be sad or ecstatic as a general manifest - they are always specific and contextual, tempered by complexity

Comments

[sporks5000]

"Not angst like a 17-year old not getting any"

The rest of the entry seems very serrious and this line just feels comically out of place.

That makes me all the more endeared to it, of course.

[full_bloom]

When you play a piece 5 times or more seven days a week, it begins to assert its reciprocal authority as an interpreter of your life too.
I think that's true of a lot of things that occur five times or more in a week.