“Beethoven is the first composer to represent the complex process of memory-not merely the sense of loss and regret that accompanies visions of the past, but the physical experience of calling up the past within the present.”

Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 3 : Mountains and Song Cycles

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American pianist and writer on music 1927–2012

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