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Tonight, I'll be reading a snoozy opening to Beethoven a character study by George Alexander Fisher.

Originally published in 1905, this biographical book on Beethoven gives a glimpse of the great

composer who died in 1827. Let's get cozy.

close your eyes.

relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths. Beethoven, Chapter 1 Early Promise God acts upon Earth only by means of superior chosen men from herder ideas toward a history of mankind.

As life broadens with advancing culture, kind.

As life broadens with advancing culture and people are able to appropriate to themselves more of the various

forms of art, The artist himself attains to greater power.

His abilities increase in direct ratio with the progress in culture made by the people and their ability to

comprehend him. When one side or phase of problems are invariably presented, the

elucidation of which can only be affected by a higher development of the faculties. There is never an

approach to equilibrium between the artist and his public.

As it advances in knowledge of his art,

he maintains the want of balance,

the disproportion that always exists between the genius and the ordinary man by

rising ever to greater heights. If Bach is the mathematician of music as has been asserted, Beethoven

is its philosopher.

In his work, the philosophic spirit comes to the fore.

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