QuoteQuest“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Ludwig van Beethoven
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
As reported by Elizabeth Brentano (Bettina) in a letter to Goethe, 27 May 1810.
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Beethoven, Ludwig van. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Ludwig van Beethoven. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven
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