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Beethoven in the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Baron, Frank
Baron, Frank
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The key common element between Beethoven’s composition and Wright’s architecture was the concept of building. Wright emphasized this particular understanding of Beethoven with an emphatic repetition: Beethoven was “building, building, building, building a great edifice of sound.” This Wright learned from his father, who impressed Wright, when he was still a child, explaining how Beethoven composed. Hence Wright presented the observer with an extraordinary challenge: to believe that the architect was able to translate in his mind Beethoven’s mysterious “building” in music into the physical form of his architecture.
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2024-02-28
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Frank Lloyd Wright Society
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Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig von Beethoven