Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Open Court, Vol. 32: June, 1918
This is the moment when the symphony becomes - a cantata. The orchestra has not proved equal to its task. It cannot banish joylessness; it cannot capture joy. Singing must come to its aid. This means nothing more nor less than that absolute instrumental music and the symphonic form. Are not sufficient. Beethoven must call other means of expression to his aid; and these he finds in song, the union' of Word and sound.
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