World of peace and universal brotherhood through music
Arts is beautiful! Artists makes the world beautiful. They create these beautiful perceptions of the world where we can live and dine, although fleetingly . Great artists have been great characters.Here are my four fav. moments of the Beautiful perceptions of the world created through music by great composers/song writers in the last 3 centuries. Ludwig Van Beethoven (1824): Ludwig Van Beethoven believed in universal brotherhood and equality of men. He had all the reasons to hope for with monarchy overthrown as the French Revolution set in in the 1790s. But as it culminated in dictatorship of Napoleon, he was dejected. Napoleon fell from hero to zero in Beethoven's heart. But Beethoven never lost faith in the goodness of man kind and the utopian ideals of universal brotherhood. This culminates in him using the text of Friedrich Schiller's ' an die freude'.. popularly known...