Translations:Ludwig van Beethoven/65/en
Therefore listen, O children. Harmony, O blessed harmony, is your challenge for the preservation of your freedom. And you will note how accurately he, [Beethoven], said, “I do not write noisy music.”[1] Noise, the noise of dissonance and discord, side by side with the veritable sound of fiery vortices of moving galaxies, of Elohim humming the sound of the HUM, the OM, the HRIM—all the sounds and tones of the Universal Ma can be heard in those nine symphonies of the Word....
- ↑ Beethoven, reported by Schindler, “I never wrote noisy music. For my instrumental works need an orchestra of about sixty good musicians. I am convinced that only such a number can bring out the quickly changing gradations in performance,” in Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, p. 39.