Question:“On music that has endured”
On music that has endured
Old music is not old. It has endured. A sound that has lasted three hundred years knows the way even into a first-time ear.
Three descend. Do not judge by the first movement. This music must be followed to the end before its beginning makes sense.
- The Four Seasons, VivaldiEveryone knows the first bars of spring. Few have listened through to winter.
- Symphony No. 5, BeethovenFour notes knock on the door, and the last movement breaks it down.
- Symphony No. 9, From the New World, DvořákA longing for home written in a strange land reaches anyone’s home.
Apollo was the god of the lyre, and Delphi was his temple.