hymner

Updated: February 28, 2026

For not only was Beethoven the great classic presence of the German concert hall, and deemed, in the words of Lanier, the "dear living lord of tone," the "sole hymner of the whole of life." He was also, of all the masters, the one spiritually most akin to Mahler.

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers