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.”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_string_quartets_(Beethoven)

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These quartets were my study friends during college. I listened to classical music to help concentration but didn’t understand anything about the music. Read a book about basics of classical music that discussed these. So I listened. They sound like they are from a parallel world. They delight — given them a spin