It can’t be avoided: every composer since Beethoven, in the nineteenth century and beyond, has had to labor under his shadow.
And some musicians have to labor under the shadow of his hair.
Professor O'Connell's Music History Blog: Assignments, Readings, and Random Thoughts on Music and History Both Inside and Outside the Classroom
“Education is something [students] must labor to give themselves. . . Education is up to them as it was up to Socrates, Milton, Locke, and Lincoln.” (Mark van Doren) “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds.” (Bob Marley)
