Article on Beethoven Centennial

Long article reporting on Beethoven Centennials in Europe (Vienna, Bonn, Berlin, Dresden, Pesth, and London), and other American cities Boston, Philadelphia, New Haven, and Chicago). The opening of the article lauds Beethoven.

“The common consent of the world has placed Beethoven among the four or five greatest men who ever lived. What Shakespeare and Dante were in poetry, what Michael Angelo was in painting, sculpture, and architecture, that Beethoven was in the sister art of music—a creator of new forms of beauty, a genius whose intellect grasped great truths beyond the perception of ordinary men. . . .”

Much more follows.