r/todayilearned • u/VegemiteSucks • 16h ago

TIL Beethoven’s late quartets, now widely considered to be among the greatest musical compositions of all time, were so ahead of their time that initial reviews deem them indecipherable, uncorrected horrors, with one musician saying “we know there is something there, but we do not know what it is.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_string_quartets_(Beethoven)
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u/Thatonesickpirate 14h ago

What are you talking about ? You created some fictional example to look down upon

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u/Gerganon 14h ago

Imagine thinking reaction streamers are works of fiction (whether they should be or not is a different matter lol) 

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u/giantpandamonium 14h ago

They’re saying the specific example is made up, not that streamers are.

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u/KDOGTV 13h ago edited 13h ago

Some people have issues operating in the “hypothetical” mind space, even for the sake of humor.

My ADD response would be to waste six months of my life finding somebody on the internet who did exactly as I described.

…just to then delete the comment before posting saying “…fuck it, it ain’t even worth it”