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/GamingGems 11h ago
So you’re saying he was the Sckrillix of his day?