Beethoven : Ludwig van (1770-1827), German musician & composer considered one of the greatest in the history of Western music. He was the first major composer of program music & a prototype of late 19th century Romantic composers.
... truly the most wonderful violinist of the epoch. Well, that man had most certainly in him a reincarnation of Beethoven. Not perhaps a reincarnation of Page 262 his entire psychic being, but in any case, that of his musical capacity. He had the appearance, the head of Beethoven, I saw him, I heard him (I did not know him, I knew nothing, I was at a concert in Paris and they were giving... giving the concerto in D major), I saw him coming on the stage to play and I said: "Strange! How much this man looks like Beethoven, he is the very portrait of Beethoven!" Then it just started with a stroke of the bow, three, four notes.... Everything changed, the atmosphere was changed. All became absolutely wonderful. Three notes started off with such power, such grandeur, so wonderful it was, nothing... other executant. And then I saw that the musical genius of Beethoven was in him.... But perhaps Beethoven's psychic being had taken body in a shoemaker or anybody else, one does not know! It wanted to have another kind of experience. For what I saw in this man was a formation belonging to an earthly plane, it was mental-vital; and as Beethoven had disciplined his whole mental, vital and physical being ...
... glory upon everything it touches that we tend to mistake the circumstances of the revelations for its luminous truth. Someone who experiences the revelation of his psychic being while listening to Beethoven might say: "Music, nothing but music is true and divine on this earth"; another, who feels his soul in the middle of the ocean's immensity, may make a religion of the open seas; still another will... fresh and crystalline purity, as it exists irresistibly outside all the traps we set for it, outside all our ideas, feelings, and pronouncements, we must create a transparency within ourselves. Beethoven, the sea, or our churches were only instruments for achieving that transparency. Because it is always the same: the moment we are clear. Truth, vision, joy emerge spontaneously; it is all there without... escapades do not represent the whole meaning of evolution. On the other hand, if we accept that the proper evolutionary course is that of the peak figures of earthly consciousness – Leonardo da Vinci, Beethoven, Alexander the Great, Dante – we are still forced to acknowledge that none of these great men has been able to transform life. Thus, the summits of the mind or the heart do not give us, any more than ...
... at all to do with mass-problems or social and political purposes of his day. Beethoven in love, Beethoven responding to Nature, Beethoven in the midst of purely personal joys and despairs, Beethoven in contact with other individuals and their personal attitudes, Beethoven looking up to some spiritual ideal, Beethoven invoking some Mystery and Beatitude beyond the earth—these are what mainly constitute... movements means divorce from life and reality, then Beethoven is a dweller among the dead. But, truly speaking, we should confine, as regards the content of art, the meaning of the words "life" and "reality" to a freedom from sterile escapism. Sterile escapism cannot be charged to even those who are more individualistic and esoteric than Beethoven. To be dissatisfied Page 44 with... Marxists might suppose, to think the artist has no connection with reality or with contemporary factors or with the general life of the nation to which he belongs. It is not tantamount to saying: "Beethoven could have sprung into existence as easily in Timbuctoo during the time of the Roman Empire as in Germany in the age of Napoleon." No doubt, a nation does feed the secret springs of an individual ...
... people would also prefer a jazz and turn away from Beethoven or only hear him as a duty and would feel happy in a theatre listening to a common dance tune and cold and dull to the music of Tansen. They would also prefer (even many who pretend otherwise) a catching theatre song to one of Tagore's lyrics—which proves to the hilt, I suppose, that Beethoven, Tansen, Tagore are pale distant highbrow things ...
... he had the head of Beethoven. I have seen him, I have heard him play … I did not know him, I knew nothing about him. I was at a concert in Paris and there was [Beethoven’s] Concerto in D major [for violin and orchestra] on the programme … I saw him coming on the stage to play and I said: “Isn’t that strange how much this man looks like Beethoven: he is the very likeness of Beethoven!” Then the violin... talk about Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, and about the occult inspiration in many parts of the operas of Richard Wagner, whose fame was around the turn of the century at its peak, in France as well as elsewhere. And then there was Eugene Ysaÿe, the Belgian violinist, ‘truly the most wonderful violinist of his age. That man had most certainly a reincarnation of Beethoven in him – not perhaps a reincarnation... if suspended. And he played that from beginning to end in an absolutely unique manner, with an understanding I have not met with in any other performer. And then I saw that the musical genius of Beethoven was in him.’ 4 Cranks, Seekers and Sages It is undeniable that in our human world today an elite manifests itself of which the distinctive mark is a higher Consciousness that wants ...
... emanation, of the soul that was the Page 142 great Beethoven. It may not have been the whole psychic being that so reincarnated, but the soul in its musical capacity. He had the same appearance, the same head. When I saw him first appearing on the stage I was greatly surprised, I said to myself, he looks so like Beethoven, the very portrait of that great genius. And then he stood, the... notes, full of power, greatness and grandeur; the entire hall was suffused with an atmosphere marvellous and unique. I could recognise very well the musical genius of Beethoven behind. It may be possible here too the soul of Beethoven in its entirety—the whole psychic being—was not present; the central psychic might have been elsewhere gathering more modest commonplace experiences, as a shoemaker... like the one I cited before, which was particularly remarkable. In the case of the composer, like the writer, it is the brain that serves him; for the executor the hands are the chief instrument. Beethoven, Bach, Cesar Franck were great composers, although the last one was an executor also. The composition of music is a cerebral activity. Now the brain of a great musician used to enter in contact ...
... incarnation, at least, an emanation, of the soul that was the great Beethoven. It may not have been the whole psychic being that so reincarnated, but the soul in its musical capacity. He had the same appearance, the same head. When I saw him first appearing on the stage I was greatly surprised, I said to myself, he looks so like Beethoven, the very portrait of that great genius. And then he stood, the... greatness and grandeur; Page 394 the entire hall was charged with an atmosphere marvellous and unique. I could recognise very well the musical genius of Beethoven behind. It may be possible here too the soul of Beethoven in its entirety-the whole psychic being-was not present; the central psychic might have been elsewhere gathering more modest, commonplace. experiences, as a shoemaker... one I referred to before, which was particularly remarkable. In the case of the composer, like the writer, it is the brain that serves him; for the executor the hands are the chief instrument. Beethoven, Bach, Cesar Franck were great composers, although the last one was an executor also. The composition of music is a cerebral activity. Now the brain of a great musician used to enter in contact with ...
... first embodiment of Consciousness as joy." And that joy is what the Italians felt, as well as I and the toad. "I remember, I found the same vibration of joy in Beethoven and Bach (in Mozart also, but more subdued)." Beethoven vividly reminded Mother of Ysaye, the renowned violonist (1838-1931) and colleague of Rubinstein. "The first time I heard Beethoven's Concerto Page 100 ... never do on their own." She noticed another phenomenon. "There was even a person, a lady, who played the violoncello. When she played Page 101 Beethoven, her features underwent a change and absolutely resembled those of Beethoven; the way she played was sublime, as she could have never played had not something of Beethoven's mentality got into her." After all this, it will not be... crowd had gathered and was ecstatic in appreciation." But Mirra was more gladdened by the ecstatic appreciation of her music from a . . . yes, a toad! "I was playing —don't know what, a Beethoven or a Mozart piece —in Tlemcen." Mirra was on a visit to Theon, the occultist, in Algeria. "Theon had a piano, because his English secretary played the piano. The piano was in his drawing-room, which ...
... who came one after another—one a concerto of Bach, another a concerto of Beethoven. The two are not alike on paper and differ to the outward ear, but in their essence they are the same. One and the same Page 126 vibration of consciousness, one wave of significant harmony touched both these artists. Beethoven caught a larger part, but in him it was more mixed with the inventions and... came into touch with a higher consciousness. Cesar Franck played on the organ as one inspired; he had an opening into the psychic life and he was conscious of it and to a great extent expresed it. Beethoven, when he composed the Ninth Symphony, had Page 125 the vision of an opening into a higher world and of the descent of a higher world into this earthly plane. Wagner had strong and... inspiration coming from on very high—the highest inspiration possible, when the whole heaven opens before us— then that becomes wonderful. There are certain things in Cesar Franck, certain things in Beethoven, certain things in Bach, there are others also who have this inspiration and power. But it is only a moment, it comes as a moment and does not last. You cannot take the entire work of an artist as ...
... of two artists who came one after another—one a concerto of Bach, another a concerto of Beethoven. The two are not alike on paper and differ to the outward ear, but in their essence they are the same. One and the same vibration of consciousness, one wave of significant harmony touched both these artists. Beethoven caught a larger part, but in him it was more mixed with the inventions and interpolations... came into touch with a higher consciousness. César Franck played on the organ as one inspired; he had an opening into the psychic life and he was conscious of it and to a great extent expressed it. Beethoven, when he composed the Ninth Symphony, had the vision of an opening into a higher world and of the descent of a higher world into this earthly plane. Wagner had strong and powerful intimations of the ...
... of two artists who came one after another—one a concerto of Bach, another a concerto of Beethoven. The two are not alike on paper and differ to the outward ear, but in their essence they are the same. One and the same vibration of consciousness, one wave of significant harmony touched both these artists. Beethoven caught a larger part, but in him it was more mixed with the inventions and interpolations... came into touch with a higher consciousness. Cesar Franck played on the organ as one inspired; he had an opening into the psychic life and he was conscious of it and to a great extent expressed it. Beethoven, when he composed the Ninth Symphony, had the vision of an opening into a higher world and of the descent of a higher world into this earthly plane. Wagner had strong and powerful intimations of the ...
... true nature, the truth of things present in the ultimate unity, the Infinite. The West dwells in the finite, the diverse, the duality. Beethoven characteristically represents the West in music. The soul of the West is reflected in the symphonies of Beethoven more than perhaps in anything else. He has expressed human emotion in its different modes with their opulence, their concords and even more... yelling of animals, the chirping of birds and the rustle of leaves – all these go to form what would appear to be like the devastating clamour of the periodic dissolution of the world. The genius of Beethoven has raised the unrhythmic hulla-balloo of the world to a lofty pitch capable of charming the human heart. As a contrast how calm, profound and unitonal is the kirtan of Tyagraj! No doubt, his music ...
... of the reading of the Agenda . June 21, 1981 Page 227 Last text of the Agenda : Et nunc . Solstice. June 22, 1981 While listening to the Heroic Symphony of Beethoven with Sujata: François there . Why? — A note. Each being is a note. A universal concert. June 24, 1981 (Personal letter) Just a few words to "console" you for this unfortunate Eastern... Hitler's paintings, with photos and panegyric of the fellow, followed by a sequence on torture in Guatemala (or I don't know where), followed by a slot on heroin traffic; then an arrangement of Beethoven (the Pastoral Symphony) for Oceanian music with Polynesian "yoyo-yeye" — it was a grace if I did not go insane. But I was completely devastated. Even Hitler had not devastated me to such an... is edifying. So we did not go to Rurutu. And the first picture that is shown to me at the end of all that tour is Adolf Hitler, heroin and the torture in Guatemala, with an arrangement of Beethoven for pop music. * April 2 I must go to the end of my story: so that we can understand together. It is a bit as if the earth had to understand its sense. We stayed forty-eight hours in ...
... of the world – of the universe. Together with a harmony of a sublime beauty. I don't know what "divine" is, but that was "divine." Beethoven – I used to love Beethoven (the only thing in the Western world that touched me was music), but even the most sublime Beethoven quartets were like Muzak compared to that... BREADTH of sound, as if the whole UNIVERSE were... ringing, reverberating – were music ...
... would also prefer a jazz and turn away from Beethoven or only hear him as a duty and would feel happy in a theatre dance-tune and cold and dull to the music of Tansen. They would also prefer (even many who pretend otherwise) a catching theatre song to one of Dwijendralal's songs and probably Satyen Dutt's verses to yours—which proves to the hilt that Beethoven, Tansen, Dwijendralal and yourself are pale ...
... expression joined to the inspiration coming from above, say, the highest possible inspiration when the entire heaven seems to open out, then it is music indeed! Some things in Cesar Franck, some in Beethoven, some in Bach, some in some others possess this sovereignty. But after all it is only a moment, it comes for a moment and does not abide. There is no artist whose 'whole work is executed at such... expression joined to the inspiration coming from above, say, the highest possible inspiration when the entire heaven seems to open out, then it is music indeed! Some things in Cesar Franck, some in Beethoven, some in Bach, some in some others possess this sovereignty. But after all it is only a moment, it comes for a moment and does not abide. There is no artist whose 'whole work is executed at such ...
... boy. And he who should but never could Was not in the savoury jam That thronged the gates of Paradise Jostling the great I am. He said he saw a smudgy moon Adown a patterned ridge And that Beethoven to his ear Rang like a bluzzing midge That bluzzed and bluzzed and bluzzed and bluzzed Until the eye grew green With shouting for dear visible things Where nothing could be seen. For nothing ...
... inspiration coming from far above—the highest inspiration possible, when all the heavens open before us—then that becomes wonderful. There are certain passages of César Franck, certain passages of Beethoven, certain passages of Bach, there are pieces by others also which have this inspiration and power. But it is Page 75 only a moment, it comes as a moment, it does not last. You cannot take ...
... more perfect in themselves than the systems of Shankara or Plato or Plotinus or Spinoza or Hegel, poetry superior to Homer's, Shakespeare's, Dante's or Valmiki's, music more superb than the music of Beethoven or Bach, sculpture greater than the statues of Phidias and Michael Angelo, architecture more utterly beautiful than the Taj Mahal, the Parthenon or Borobudur or St. Peter's or of the great Gothic ...
... chauffeur, homo externalis Russellius , an extrovert? Or is an introvert one who has an inner life stronger, more brilliant, more creative than his external life,—the poet, the musician, the artist? Was Beethoven in his deafness bringing out music from within him an introvert? Or does it mean one who measures external things by an inner standard and is interested in them not for their own sake but for their ...
... statesmen and soldiers—for the most part poor enough types of men—but came from her great philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Nietzsche, from her great thinker and poet Goethe, from her great musicians, Beethoven and Wagner, and from all in the German soul and temperament which they represented. A nation whose master achievement has lain almost entirely in the two spheres of philosophy and music, is clearly ...
... his fifties no less than of Blind Thamyris and blind Maeonides And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old, or on receiving the same stroke of adverse fate as that superman of music, the aged Beethoven, it is surely preferable to be less distinguished but fully able to appreciate "Summer's rose" and the "human face divine" as well as thrill to the presence of "the wakeful bird" which Sings darkling ...
... philanthropy. It includes inspired art, acute philosophy, constructive science, wise politics, fair industry. The swabhāva or innate nature of a man should determine his vocation; to ask a Beethoven, for instance, to stint for the problem of bad housing of the poor the time wanted for his symphonies and sonatas and quartets is to rob humanity of priceless boons. Every Yogi, too, is not ...
... nature, whether philanthropy or any of the others I have listed. There is no compulsion to give oneself exclusively to philanthropic activity. We can't wish a Shakespeare to stop writing plays or a Beethoven to cease composing symphonies and carry on social service any more than we can wish them to become doctors or engineers when their natural turn is towards drama or music. What we can unquestionably ...
... and hammer, spacious patterns of music, and we can set you amidst movements of gods and goddesses, a heavenly traffic heard for us and echoed to us by Chopin and Mozart and Cesar Franck, Bach and Beethoven and Wagner. Live, child, in these palaces, and find yourself, when you are no longer a child, one in spirit with those divinities. I can never wish you anything better on your first birthday. ...
... that have faded, wishing them otherwise. There is no real fading if you feel a fullness awaiting you in the days to come. Get caught up in its call and let the years beyond your 86 move like a Beethoven Symphony mounting" to its grand finale." (23.11.1990) If one is really under the spell of what is called "black magic", one would feel some kind of indefinable malaise. But all ...
... and simple.” I am a little dubious as to his precise meaning. Have you seen the passage ? I wonder, because I don't think his thesis is Page 216 quite true. I don't know that Beethoven had an all-sided culture. Tagore has a wide culture—grant. But are his novels more satisfying than Sarat Chandra's whose culture is not so wide ? Qu'en dites-vous ? Is not culture a some- what ...
... we hear the noises of the world, its deafening cries and no doubt at times also some earthly music. But when the ear is turned inward, we listen to unearthly things. Indeed we know how stone-deaf Beethoven heard some of those harmonies of supreme beauty that are now the cherished possessions of humanity. This inner ear is able to take you by a process of regression to the very source of all sound and ...
... Asuras 5 Athens 47 Atri 8 Atul Gupta 102 Auchathya 8 Avatara 27 B Bacchus 34 Balaka 92 Bamardo 23, 24 Baudelaire 72 Bauls 84 Beethoven 9 Bengal 91, 104 Bengalis 98 Bengal mysticism 88 Bengali Poetry 82 Bhakta 78 Boris Pasternak 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45 Brahman 12 Brihat 4 British ...
... we hear the noises of the world, its deafening cries and no doubt at times also some earthly music. But when the ear is turned inward, we listen to unearthly things. Indeed we know how stone-deaf Beethoven heard some of those harmonies of supreme beauty that are Page 145 now the cherished possessions of humanity. This inner ear is able to take you by a process of regression to the very ...
... character and outlook. The Western Germany is the true Germany, the Germany of light and culture, the Germany that produced the great musicians, poets and idealists, Goethe and Heine and Wagner and Beethoven. The other Germany represents the dark shadow. It is Prussia and Prussianised Germany. This Germany originally belonged to the bleak, wild, savage, barbarous East Europe and was never thoroughly reclaimed ...
... even though fallen on such evil days composed the world famous epic poem (I am referring obviously to Milton and his Paradise Lost). We remember also here the deaf incomparable master of music Beethoven. Many of the sayings of Dirghatama have become so current that they are now familiar even to the common man. They are mottoes and proverbs we all quote at all times. "Truth is one, the wise call ...
... 141 Amrita, 29 Arjuna, 206, 350 Aryama, 330 Ashram, the, 57, 118-9, 161, 269, 270, 390 Ashwapati, 237-41, 243, 246, 274 Asura, 250, 287, 368 Atris, 372 BEATRICE, 284 Beethoven, 273 Bharati, 189 Bible, the, 121, 305, 345n – Book of Job, 305n – St. John , 345n Borman, 316 Brahma, 256 Brahman, 181-2, 185, 188-9, 193, 205, 290, 299, 339, 368 ...
... A man like Leonardo da Vinci was a Yogi and nothing else .... Music too is an essentially spiritual art and has always been associated with religious feeling and an inner life.... ... Beethoven, when he composed the Ninth Symphony, had the vision of an opening into a higher world and of the descent of a higher world into this earthly plane .... There is a domain far above the mind ...
... well. Apart from teaching singing, what else can I do in the music classes? What else can I teach the children? Mother - Make them listen to good music. Select good pieces of music, like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart or pieces of Indian classical music, the music of ragas. That will be very beautiful. I like that sort of music very much. You will have to make a very fine selection. (then silence, as She ...
... rightly points out that it was not her soldiers and empire-builders like Bismark and Moltke and Kaiser Wilhelm II but her thinkers like Kant, Hegel, Fichte and Nietzsche and her great musicians, Beethoven and Wagner, who represented Germany's great subjective force that has ushered in the modem renaissance. And yet it is the soldier and the racist who have repeatedly seized power and tried to give ...
... universal operation we must find another explanation than the teleological? or rather [one that] will at once contain and exceed the teleological? If it had only been Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Edison, Beethoven, Napoleon, Schopenhauer, the creators in poetry, art, science, music, life or thought, who possessed imagination, we might then have found an use for their unused imaginations in the greater preparatory ...
... something of Beethoven's power had possessed him or had reincarnated in him. She regarded the musician César Franck highly for his pure psychic inspiration. Her admiration for Bach and Beethoven is well known, but perhaps it is not so commonly understood ¹ Centenary Edition Vol. 3, p. 106. Page 144 that Wagner also was to her one of the greatest musical ...
... Cheloo, for instance, or Joseph, homo externalis Russellius, an extrovert? Or is an introvert one who has an inner life stronger than his external one,—the poet, the musician, the artist? Was Beethoven in his deafness bringing out music from within an introvert? Or does it mean one who measures external things by an inner standard and is interested in them not for their own sakes but for their value ...
... Joseph, the chauffeur, for instance — homo extemalis Russellius, an extrovert? Or is an introvert one who has an inner life stronger than his external one — the poet, the musician, the artist? Was Beethoven in his deafness bringing out music from within an introvert? Or does it mean one who measures external things by an inner standard and is interested in them not 'for their own sakes' but for their ...
... objective action, was not in Germany’s statesman and soldiers … but came from her great philosophers, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Nietzsche, from her great poet and thinker Goethe, from her great musicians, Beethoven and Wagner, and from all in the German soul and temperament which they represented. A nation whose master achievement has lain almost entirely in the two spheres of philosophy and music is clearly ...
... the house of the Théons, normally played by Teresa. Do toads have a sense of music? The fat and warty one, which came and sat on the threshold of the open door while Mirra was playing Mozart and Beethoven, must have felt something, for it remained listening as if transfixed; and when Mirra stopped playing, it thanked her for the recital with a couple of deep-throated croaks, then hopped away into the ...
... humanity one need not always be social-reformist. "Do you think," asks Rolland, "that the creative endeavours of art can't and don't prove a daily succour in our sorrows? A single symphony of Beethoven is certainly worth half a dozen social reforms... The first and paramount duty of the artist and the intellectual is to be true to his inner call and urge - sleeplessly: he must above all keep ...
... Schiller, Novalis, Heine, Hölderlin; the philosophers Fichte, Schlegel, Hegel, all of them having to define themselves against Kant, paragon of the Aufklärung; and musicians of the stature of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, who even today delight so many hearts with an art incomparably refined, profound and sublime. The Age of Reason, especially in its French representatives, the philosophes ...
... hazard the conclusion that her future as a singer on the old psychological lines hardly exists, but she has to find fully her soul, her inner self and with it the inner singer. 8 September 1937 Beethoven There can be no doubt that Beethoven's music was often from another world; so it is quite possible for it to give the key to an inwardly sensitive hearer or to one who is seeking or ready for the ...
... musicians, something of that musician entered into their hands and made their performance absolutely wonderful. There was even a person—a woman—who used to play the cello, and the moment she played Beethoven, the expression of her face completely changed into Beethoven's and what she played was sublime, which she could not have played unless something of Beethoven's mind had entered into her. Mother ...
... "Oh, you can certainly perform miracles! People will be wonderstruck." ( silence ) But I found a far lovelier miracle.... It was at Tlemcen, I was playing the piano, I don't recall what (a Beethoven or a Mozart piece). Théon had a piano (because his English secretary used to play the piano), and this piano was in his drawing room, which was on a level with the mountain, halfway up, almost at ...
... like geography, you know! But anyway, it's right on the border of the higher hemisphere.... It's the first expression of Consciousness as joy. I remember finding that same vibration of joy in Beethoven and Bach (in Mozart also, but to a lesser degree). The first time I heard Beethoven's concerto in D—in D major, for violin and orchestra... suddenly the violin starts up (it's not right at the be ...
... always be social-reformist. "Do you think," asks Page 169 Rolland, "that the creative endeavours of art can't and don't prove a daily succour in our sorrow? ,A single symphony of Beethoven is certainly worth half a dozen social reforms... The first and paramount duty of the artist and the intellectual is to be true to his inner call and urge - sleeplessly: he must above all keep the ...
... illness gives boundless stimulus to creative activity. But political figures have had some famous handicaps. Choosing in all fields one need only think of Milton, who was Page 464 blind, Beethoven, who became deaf, or Lord Nelson, who, mutilated by wounds, had to fight pain all his life. Julius Caesar suffered from epilepsy, Alexander the Great was a drunkard, and Nietzsche died insane. Gibbon ...
... 69, 161, 205, 261, 277, 286, 390 BAAL,220 Babylon, 223 Bacon, 16 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, 114, 197 Bartho1omews, St., 52 Baudelaire, 48 Beethoven, 88 Behaviourism, 326 Benda, Julien, 119 - La Trahison des Clercs, 119 Bentham, 50, 140 Berdyaev, 260 Bergson, 16-20, 255, 327, 351, 364 Bernard ...
... discussed this point in sufficient detail and given some striking examples derived from her own personal experiences. The case of the French musical composer, Berlioz, and the celebrated German musician, Beethoven, falls in this category. Readers will come to know many interesting things if they go through the records of the Mother's conversation of September 16, 1953. (Vide CWM, Vol. 5) Here ends ...
... has incomparably less effect on metabolism than the contraction of the biceps when this muscle lifts a weight of a few grams. The ambition of Caesar, the meditation of Newton, the inspiration of Beethoven, the passionate contemplation of Pasteur, did not modify the chemical exchanges of these great men as much as a few bacteria or a slight stimulation of the thyroid gland would easily have done... ...
... 95 -"Le Couvercle", 95 -"L'Elevation",78n -"L'Irremediable," 95 -"Les Petites vieilles", 66n Bauls, 223 Bayle, 1O9n -Nouvelle de la Ripublique des Lettres, 1O9n Beethoven, 163 Bengal, 164, 228, 235, 261 Benois, 153 Berdyaev, Nicholas 129 Bergson, lOin., 248, 286 Bhattacharya, Purnendu Prasad, 215 -"I Embark", 214 Bible, the, 50 Blake, 74 ...
... Asura, 19,45-6,80,98, 162,208-9,226, 253, 334, 349, 379 Axis Powers, the, 66 BABYLON, 199 Bach, 393,424,427 Ba1arama, 44, 207-8 Bankim (Chandra Chatterjee), 21 Beatrice, 203 Beethoven, 393-5, 424 Bengal, 21 Bergson, 143 Berkeley, 137 Bhaga,208 Bible, the, 100, 127, 152, 186, 192,397 Bois de Fontaineb1eu, 287 Book of the Dead, 133 Borodine, 427 Brahma ...
... hear the noises of the world, its deafening cries and no doubt at times also some earthly music. But when the ear is turned inward, we listen to unearthly things Indeed we know how stone-deaf Beethoven heard some of those harmonies of supreme beauty that are now the cherished possessions of humanity. This inner ear is able to take you by a process of regression to the very source of all sound ...
... expression joined to the inspiration coming from above, say, the highest possible inspiration when the entire heaven seems to open out, then it is music indeed; Some things in César Franck, some in Beethoven, some in Bach, some in some others possess this sovereignty. But after all it is only a moment, it comes for a moment and does not abide. There is not a single artist whose whole work is executed ...
... even though fallen on such evil days composed the world famous epic-poem (I am referring obviously to Milton and his Paradise Lost). We remember also here the deaf incomparable master of music Beethoven. Many of the sayings of Dirghatama have become so current that they Page 9 are now familiar even to the common man. They are mottos and proverbs we all quote at all times. "Truth ...
... tell me and I'll select the right music for your drills." From that day I started going to Pavitra-da's room in the afternoons. On Mother's directions Pavitra-da would play the music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, etc. on the gramophone. After a few days Mother asked me: "Can you now feel what good music is?" For several years Mother kept her promise of selecting music for the drills ...
... which expresses it. To complete the genius both must be there. This is very rare. As for Western and Indian music: This very high inspiration [as in certain passages of César Franck, Beethoven, Bach] comes only rarely in European music; rare also is a psychic origin, very rare. Either it comes from high above or it is vital.... Sometimes it is psychic, particularly in what has been religious ...
... 'Bangavani' 679 Bapat, Senapati 682 Baptista, Joseph 199 Barindra Ghose 200, 209, 215-6, 235, 241, 247, 339 Baron, C.F. 571, 662 Page 898 Becharlal Bhatt, Dr 400 Beethoven 304 Bejoy Nag 91, 131, 201, 211, 213, 217, 233 Bhakti Sutras 32 Bhagavad Gita 15, 82, 192, 613-4, 639, 836 Bhagawat, N.K. 639 Bharati, Subramania 85, 132, 220 Bharati, Suddhananda ...
... y tastes change, and fashions, and sciences. But what does not change in all this? What is the constant? And She added in order to reassure the child, disconcerted by the prospect of a cobbler Beethoven: It isn't a downfall; it is just meeting the problem from another angle. 2 What then is this problem of all times and of each time? The Artist’s Life From Luxor or the Palazzo Ducale ...
... The Adventure of the Apocalypse Art of arts Never through Angelo's eye, Beethoven's ear, Is caught the Timeless Wonder tense and sheer. Eternity comes outvasting all their art, An intimate blindness breaking in the heart To sudden seizure of a shadowless sky, Deep blue unheard, huge wind shutting the eye, And yet the music and ma ...
... The Secret Splendour Never through Angelo's eye, Beethoven's ear. Is caught the Timeless Wonder tense and sheer. Eternity comes outvasting all their art, An intimate blindness breaking in the heart To sudden seizure of a shadowless sky, Deep blue unheard, huge wind shutting the eye. And yet the music and magnificence A rapture that ...
... They catch the snakes by playing that tune. SRI AUROBINDO: If that story of the spider is true, it means that different animals are sensitive to different kinds of music. To snakes, perhaps Beethoven's sonatas would have no appeal, while this music of the snake-charmers appeals to them, perhaps because of its being current in Nagaloka! There was a reference to the naval battle between the German ...
... absolutely gone.... ( Mother starts playing the organ again ) It's really a pity I don't remember at all. That was really fine. It was "the hymn to the Truth." It resembled a certain symphony of Beethoven's (oh, I am going to say something dreadful)... without the padding! All human music always has padding. They have an inspiration, and in between there's a gap, so they fill it up with their "musical ...
... more miserable months, proving the truth of Einstein's remark at a later date: "There are only two things that are limitless - the universe and human stupidity." * Your mention of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony brings back to me the feeling I have always had about all art. 1 find art to divide roughly into two kinds - the one that humanly ascends in a way that makes us sing paeans of praise... types of art are precious, yet this is indeed a ram avis - Sri Aurobindo's Swan of the supreme and spaceless ether wandering winged through the universe, . Spirit immortal! Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is an example of the second type of art and what you have described as "the final outburst of inexplicable joy" is one of the world's master-movements of it. Among European achievements ...
... more possibilities to her play. And suddenly I heard, as if they came from all the corners of the earth, those great notes one sometimes hears in the subtle physical, a little like those of Beethoven's Concerto in D-major, which come in moments of great progress, as though fifty orchestras had burst forth all in unison, without a single false note, to express the joy of this new communion between ...
... more possibilities to her play. And suddenly, as if resounding from every corner of the earth, I heard these great notes which are sometimes heard in the subtle physical—rather like those of Beethoven's Concerto in D—which come at moments of great progress, as though fifty orchestras were bursting forth all at once without a single discordant note, to sound the joy of this new communion of Nature ...
... training. PURANI: Everybody can't appreciate or criticise music. The ear and the aesthetic faculty have to be trained. You can see in Bhishmadev and Biren that they enter into the spirit of music. Beethoven's Symphonies are played with instruments only. When Bhishmadev sings you can see that he is conscious only of the notes and not of the words and that he tries to communicate his emotion through the ...
... are absolutely not necessary. If you can't have Page 289 pure music without word then one can also say that one cannot paint a subject which is not literary. Disciple : Beethoven's symphonies are only musical notations and played with the violin and piano. One of the reasons why North Indians fail, or find it difficult, to appreciate South Indian Music is because they are prevented ...
... by dint of sustaining that intense gaze everywhere, something burst out. It was at a concert, a recital by the great Belgian violinist Ysaye, a colleague of Rubinstein: The first time I heard Beethoven's concerto in D—in D major, for violin and orchestra ... suddenly the violin starts up (it's not right at the beginning—first there's an orchestral passage and then the violin takes it up), and with ...
... mediocrity and refusal to suffer fools gladly. Even if they had been cheap or common instead of impressive, his poetry would not have become less great in our eyes any more than the few ugly traits in Beethoven's character make his music less grand for us or the best work of Wordsworth the poet less wonderfully seerlike because of the massive stupidity that in the man Wordsworth was the reverse of what in ...
... dalliance with Eternity And the stupendous gates of the Alone. [p. 91] A breath from such altitudes does get wafted in the closing canto of Dante's epic, which, barring a symphony of Beethoven's, is perhaps the most glorious voice Europe has heard of the Divine Ananda, but there too the scheme of Christian theology is at work. On occasion we have an anticipation of some Aurobindonian ...
... chambers of dalliance with Eternity And the stupendous gates of the Alone. A breath from such altitudes does get wafted in the closing canto of Dante's epic, which, barring a symphony of Beethoven's, is perhaps the most glorious voice Europe has heard of the Divine Ananda, but there too the scheme of Christian theology is at work. On occasion we have an anticipation of some Aurobindonian God-glimpse ...
... transfiguring moment for the Mother: And suddenly I heard, as if they came from all the corners of the earth, those great notes one sometimes hears in the subtle physical, a little like those of Beethoven's Concerto in D-major, which come in moments of great progress, as though fifty orchestras had burst forth all in unison, without a single false note, to express the joy of this new communion between ...
... es—a world where nobody would ultimately be left but pharaohs and sultans, as if we were not already swamped with tyrants—or even to evolve ever more intelligent geniuses, super-Goethes or super-Beethovens—a world ultimately so overflowing with literature and music that we might be saturated or bored to death, as if this formidable human ascent of suffering and chaos and conflict were only meant to ...
... Mystery before and Mystery behind, 233 Naked and hungry, abject, pale with fright, 420 Name after name I give to God: 325 Never through Angelo's eye, Beethoven's ear 268 Night has a core 21 Night has its wakefulness 650 Night's noon! Does mystery reveal a rent 304 No clamorous wing-waft knew the deeps of gold ...
... ies to her game. ‘And suddenly I heard, as if coming from the four corners of the Earth, the great musical sounds which one sometimes hears in the subtle physical, somewhat alike to those of Beethoven’s [violin] concerto in D minor, as if fifty orchestras burst out together without one single discordant note, to tell the joy of this new communion of Nature and Spirit — the encounter of two old friends ...
... wasn't it? It was effectively expressed. The finale towards which it was leading was the grandeur of the descent into this world of a harmony which is not beyond its reach, and that reminded me of Beethoven's Ninth symphony. You have heard it, haven't you?" I nodded. Page 220 "Your music yesterday seemed to me to be making an opening towards that grand Power, of course, not in the European ...
... clearer and shakes off the mud' of its usual ways of seeing and doing and proceeding, this same Shakti—because it is the same that flows in the mud, the dust, the walls, the asp and the thunder, or in Beethovens symphonies: there is but one thing in the world, not two—that same and only disentangled Shakti lets its purer ray, therefore more direct and powerful and freer, flow into the same old substance ...
... possibilities to her play. ‘And suddenly I heard, as if they came from the four corners of the earth, the great notes one sometimes hears in the subtle physical. They resemble somewhat those of Beethoven’s [Violin] Concerto in D-major and come at the time of a great [evolutionary] step forward, as if fifty orchestras burst out together without a single discordant note, to proclaim the joy of this new ...
... vain noises, there is a great kingdom of light which sings—and we are today, perhaps, like the ancient barbarians before unimaginably peopled oceans. Oh! I have heard sublime music, and some of Beethoven's deaf-notes had seemed to me higher than many a cathedral, but that night I heard as if for the first time in my life. In truth, until that day I had heard only thin little sounds, a translation ...
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