#bach or mendelssohn could've written circles around him with counterpoint.
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easily the most annoying thing about beethoven 9 is that the finale really actually is as good as everyone makes it out to be.
#sasha speaks#caught a bit of this one on the radio on the way home tonight#gd damnit. but the finale is so good. why does it have to be so good#the rest of the symphony is honestly just fine. like i think it's still quite good in the scheme of symphonies as a whole#but among beethoven's symphonies i think it's on the mid side#and good lord the grip this stupid piece had on every composer ever for the next hundred years.#i won't say it's a net negative for composition because it objectively is not but some of the Trends it kicked off do annoy me#and that fucking theme. it SHOULD be annoying it SHOULD be boring. it's so simple and trite#it certainly is in the shitmillion covers and quotations and commercial underscores it shows up in#and yet when it's Actually Beethoven. my gd. it's brilliant. it's Glorious#speaks to the man's fantastic grasp of orchestration i suppose#but like. how the fuck does he do it.#the repetition is just like schubert.#tchaikovsky has a broader palette of colors in his orchestrations.#bach or mendelssohn could've written circles around him with counterpoint.#and yet. and YET#it's crap when other people try. but by gd. beethoven makes it work. it's incredible
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