:02:05
It was that damned sonata...
:02:10
the "Kreutzer."
:02:13
At the time I entertained
ambitions of a musical career.
:02:17
I'd gone to Vienna to study
and was fortunate enough...
:02:20
to be taken by Schuppanzigh
as a pupil.
:02:22
He and George Bridgetower,
the famous virtuoso from Africa...
:02:25
were about to premiere
this new Beethoven sonata...
:02:28
at Count Razumovsky's that evening...
:02:31
and I was allowed
to attend the rehearsal.
:02:36
It was there that the seed
of a mystery was planted...
:02:40
that haunts me to this day.
:02:53
Do you like it?
:02:56
I cannot hear them.
:02:59
But I know they are
making a hash of it.
:03:01
What do you think?
:03:06
Music is a dreadful thing.
:03:12
What is it?
:03:14
I don't understand it.
:03:16
What does it do?
:03:21
It exalts the soul.
:03:24
Utter nonsense. It you hear
a marching band, is your soul exalted?
:03:27
No, you march.
It you hear a waltz, you dance.
:03:30
It you hear a mass,
you take communion.
:03:34
It is the power ot music...
:03:37
to carry one directly
into the mental state...
:03:41
ot the composer.
:03:43
The listener has no choice.
:03:46
It is like hypnotism.
:03:50
So, now...
:03:52
what was in my mind
when I wrote this?