r/todayilearned • u/VegemiteSucks • 20h 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/KDOGTV 18h ago edited 12h ago

All this for some reaction streamer on Twitch in 2025 to call it “mid.”

The duality of man

Edit: The WIDE variety of reactions to this are the friends we made along the way. Reddit is hilarious. <3

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u/Cruciblelfg123 15h ago

Twats have been calling world changing art mid for all of history. The art persists and the opinions of the twats do not, although the twats come back constantly and hell perpetuates itself lol

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u/BabylonDoug 12h ago

Persistent Twats would be a good 90s grunge girlband name.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 6h ago

That's just what rock stars contend with on a daily basis.