Is All I Can Do All I Can Do?

[Whitney, Group Moderator]

From "The Life and Works of Beethoven" by John N. Burk:

Beethoven felt helpless in all things but music and unable to cope with ordinary contingencies. “If I were only in London,” he wrote in 1822, “what would I not compose for the Philharmonic Society? For Beethoven, thank God, can compose; of all else he is incapable.” His God-given function to compose was his service to the world, his one ability, his one loyalty.