touched upon emotions one had lived through in some former
existence.... The warmth and depth of his ethical sentiment is
now felt all the world over, and it will ere long be universally
recognised that he has leavened and widened the sphere of men’s
emotions in a manner akin to that in which the conceptions of
great philosophers and poets have widened the sphere of men’s
intellectual activity.”
[Footnote 171: Suggestive comments from a literary point of
view may also be found in these works: Studies in the Seven
Arts, Symonds;Beethovenby Romain Rolland—with an inter-
esting though ultra-subjective introduction by Carpenter;The
Development of Symphonic Musicby T.W. Surette;Beethoven
by Walker;Beethovenby Chantavoine in the seriesLes Maîtres
de la Musique. As to the three successive “styles” under which
Beethoven’s works are generally classified there is an excellent
account in Pratt’sHistory of Music, p. 419.]
[Footnote 172: This passage is to be found in the Life in Grove’s
Dictionary.]