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     “Beethoven“ (1987) 

           Andy Warhol

               ________

by this time, in his Piano Sonata in A minor, 

D 845, Schubert has accumulated so much 

Beethoven that his Beethoven is beginning 

to shine through in his own compositions, 

Beethoven was a forefather, still present, 

it’s often difficult to tell one, indeed, from 

the other, even here

Beethoven, see above, punched through

Classicism – Mozart, Haydn – its artificiality,

delivering emotion, instinctively, from the

very start, from which he nearly

single-handedly delivered to the world no

less than Romanticism, like delivering the 

recalibration of time and space after 

Einstein essentially, so profound a 

cultural metaphysical reorganization

Schubert remains ever more courteous,

more beholden to the upper crust that

supports him, and that he ever wants to 

court, you can hear it, listen, there is no 

confrontation here, just, dare I say,

entertainment

Schubert was not a revolutionary

R ! chard