Beethoven: The Poets’ Take: Anthony Anaxagorou, Raymond Antrobus & Ruth Padel
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Is Your Father Damaged You the Way Meteor Damaged Me?
A lot of my poems er reference the music. I think i had three things that i wanted to ask myself. How did this scruffy little boy pop marked son of an alcoholic come to write these extraordinary things? And how, you know, by the time he died, all the schools in vienna were closed. Ten thousand people followed his funeralHow did it happen that this boy radicalized music in a way,. more than anybody, even stockhauser beethoven, changed things in the most radical, surprising way? Er? and also, how did it happened that somebody who has very explosive, complicated, difficult, thorny, upsetting relationships with people, managed to write music
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