Jill Mattson – Fabien Maman reflected on the impact of Beethoven’s music. “It is not possible to read or write while listening to Beethoven. [1] His music disturbs. Indifference is impossible around a Beethoven symphony because this music vibrates all of the bodies, from the physical to the subtlest. With his music, Beethoven puts us in resonance physically, emotionally and spiritually.” [2]

Maman continued, “Beethoven can set the imagination soaring. He moved humanity forward with his revolutionary dissonances, harmonies and structure. Beethoven himself understood the deepest esoteric purposes for his music. ‘Life resembles the vibration of the sound and the human is like the play of the strings.’ Beethoven said, ‘Whoever understands my music will free himself from the misery in which all others are entrenched.'” [3] Continue reading →