Food for thought: Glenn Gould on why Beethoven is an admired composer.

Spoken notes before performing Piano Sonata 17 in D minor, op 31. The Tempest Sonata. Broadcast March 19, 1967

“…within every creative person there is an inventor at odds with a museum curator…and most of the startling things that happen in music are the result of some momentary gain of one at the expense of the other… In his case… this struggle isn’t tucked away out of sight like the proverbial skeleton in the family closet. It is the very surface of the music… and Beethoven let’s us see it happening as if he had no skeleton to hide…”