Ludwig van Beethoven
Famous composer whose music has literally been shot into space by NASA to impress aliens.
… monstrous and tasteless …
—Composer Louis Spohr
[His Ninth Symphony] puts the muscles and lungs of the band and the patience of the audience to a severe trial.
—The Harmonicon, London, 1825
… dull and ugly … [o]h, the pages of stupid and hopelessly vulgar music! The unspeakable cheapness …
—Philip Hale
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