Classical

Bernstein on Beethoven:

- unremarkable melodies
- chords so simple any child could write
- bad orchestration

he often started with unpromising drafts and kept iterating relentlessly

“left pages of discarded material … He rejected, rewrote, scratched out, tore up, and sometimes altered a passage as many as twenty times”

for context, this is the opposite of Mozart’s more creative and clean process, yet Beethoven ended up transforming the whole industry

https://youtu.be/OuYY1gV8jhU?feature=shared&t=305

Interesting insight into Beethoven's creative process! Sometimes it's the persistence and hard work that lead to groundbreaking results. 🎶🎹