>Of the books of which he was possessed at the time of his death there have been preserved four volumes of translations of Shakespeare’s works, Homer’s “Odyssey” in the translation of J. H. Voss, Sturm’s “Observations” (several times referred to in the preceding pages), and Goethe’s “West-ostlicher Divan.” These books are frequently marked and annotated in lead pencil, thus bearing witness to the subjects which interested Beethoven. From them, and volumes which he had borrowed, many passages were copied by him into his daily journal. Besides these books Schindler mentions Homer’s “Iliad,” Goethe’s poems, “Wilhelm Melster” and “Faust,” Schiller’s dramas and poems, Tiedge’s “Urania,” volumes of poems by Matthisson and Seume, and Nina d’Aubigny’s “Letters to Natalia on Singing,”—a book to which Beethoven attached great value. These books have disappeared, as well as others which Beethoven valued. We do not know what became of the volumes of Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch and Xenophon, or the writings of Pliny, Euripides, Quintilian, Ovid, Horace, Ossian, Milton and Thomson, traces of which are found in Beethoven’s utterances.>The catalogue made for the auction sale of his posthumous effects on September 7, 1827, included forty-four works of which the censorship seized five as prohibited writings, namely, Seume’s “Foot Journey to Syracuse,” the Apocrypha, Kotzebue’s “On the Nobility,” W.E. Muller’s “Paris in its Zenith” (1816), and “Views on Religion and Ecclesiasticism.” Burney’s “General History of Music” was also in his library, the gift, probably of an English admirer.
>>23325479Apparently he read and criticized Kants work (not a fan), based on another thread.
>>23325479Bach is better.
>>23325487Perhaps; he was yet fond of the philosopher's saying,>The moral law in us, and the starry sky above us.
>>23325493Also of Kant's quotation of the inscription on the Temple of Isis:>Under the glass on Beethoven’s writing table was the inscription on the Temple of Isis ("I am all that is, and that was, and that shall be, and no mortal hath raised the veil from before my face.")–the very words which Kant described as expressing the "most sublime" of human thoughts.
>>23325504Where did Kant say this?
>>23325520Critique of Judgement.>Perhaps there has never been a more sublime utterance, or a thought more sublimely expressed, than the well-known inscription upon the Temple ofIsis (Mother Nature): ‘I am all that is, and that was, and that shall be, and no mortal hath raised the veil from before my face.’ Segner made use of this idea in a suggestive vignette on the frontispiece of his Natural Philosophy, in order to inspire his pupil at the threshold of that temple into which he was about to lead him, with such a holy awe as would dispose his mind to serious attention.Similarly he wrote:>Perhaps there is no more sublime passage in the Jewish Law than the commandment: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven or on earth, or under the earth, &c. This commandment can alone explain the enthusiasm which the Jewish people, in their moral period, felt for their religion when comparing themselves with others, or the pride inspired by Mohammedianism.
>>23325489Yes but we don't really know what Bach read now, do we?
>>23325479Not as good as bach (pbuh)
>>23326136>we don't really know what Bach read now, do we?We kind of do. Luther's Bible, Lutheran hymns, Baroque comedies, etc.
>>23326262I mean, is that just an educated guess based on the texts he used in his music, or did he actually leave behind a library?
>>23325479>translations
>>23325489Normoid cope. Beethoven and Bruckner are the greatest composers who ever lived. Neither had sex and therefore more soul in their music.
>>23325479>Sturm’s “Observations”who/what is this?
>>23327323https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Christian_Sturm
>>23327694danke, anon>Finally, in 1778, he was appointed chief pastor of St. Peter's Church at Hamburg. Here he at first lived happily, beloved and respected as a preacher and author, until, in 1782, his views on the Salvation of the Heathen led J. M. Goetze, chief pastor of St. Katherine's Church in Hamburg, to accuse him of nationalism. The resulting controversy embittered and shortened Sturm's life.kek
>>23326347Just from the text's he set to music.
