C. Hubert H. Parry, Studies of Great Composers, published 1904 https://archive.org/details/studiesgreatcom00parrgoog

His ideas came so profusely that he always had several works going on at once, and he always meditated and thought over them for a long while before he brought them to completeness. His practice was to jot down the ideas roughly as they came into his head in little sketch-books which he carried in his pocket, and he then polished and improved these original ideas time after time, sometimes for years, before he worked them up into complete works.

— C. Hubert H. Parry

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "His ideas came so profusely that he always had several works going on at once, and he always meditated and thought over them for a long while before he brought them to completeness. His practice was to jot down the ideas roughly as they came into his head in little sketch-books which he carried in his pocket, and he then polished and improved these original ideas time after time, sometimes for years, before he worked them up into complete works." in the context of "C. Hubert H. Parry, Studies of Great Composers, published 1904 https://archive.org/details/studiesgreatcom00parrgoog" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

About Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17 1770, died March 26 1827) was a German composer and pianist who lived predominantly in Vienna, Austria. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.