Charles Rosen Quote

Beethoven is the first composer to represent the complex process of memory-not merely the sense of loss and regret that accompanies visions of the past, but the physical experience of calling up the past within the present.

Ch. 3 : Mountains and Song Cycles - The Romantic Generation (1995)

Beethoven is the first composer to represent the complex process of memory-not merely the sense of loss and regret that accompanies visions of the...

Beethoven is the first composer to represent the complex process of memory-not merely the sense of loss and regret that accompanies visions of the...

Beethoven is the first composer to represent the complex process of memory-not merely the sense of loss and regret that accompanies visions of the...

Beethoven is the first composer to represent the complex process of memory-not merely the sense of loss and regret that accompanies visions of the...