Beethoven's symphonies, particularly the Fifth and Ninth, contain a kind of overwhelmingly powerful aggression and force that is sublime—the Ninth Symphony's Ode to Joy integrates terrible power with beauty, and listeners describe feeling physically overwhelmed by the experience.
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Robert GreeneEvidence Quote
“There's there's a kind of a an aggression and violence like to the fifth symphony and the ninth symphony... There's something so overwhelmingly powerful about it... It's so to joy.”
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