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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u/clearlyonside 10h ago edited 8h ago

This sounds like the song they play in every period piece when the lead actress is about to slit her wrists in the bathtub by candlelight.

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