Music. Radicalism in Music.

The somewhat lengthy celebration for German composer Ludwig van Beethoven just ended has had, in spite of its withering dullness, at least one salutary effect. It has served to remind musicians that this musical Titan, too, had to struggle, not only against his own deafness, but against the still greater deafness of eighteenth-century conservatism. Apparently then, as now, the musical mind was well plastered with traditions, while those, who cherished them probably did so with the same dreary reverence and for the same misguided purpose that clogs their progress today.