Opus 131 "Mystic Vision"
Is Opus 131 the greatest musical piece ever composed? Most people have not heard of Beethoven's string quartet in C# minor, Opus 131, but I think it qualifies for that honor. What are you looking for when you look for the greatest musical endeavor? I look for an adjunct to my spiritual journey into what I call the "Phi Dimension". This is a dimension greater then the 3 dimensions we can see, we can only feel it and accept it by faith. It has a heavenly atmosphere. Music historian Harvey Sachs in his book "The Ninth" was written about the rightly famous tome by Beethoven his ninth symphony. But he sates in the Postlude that when he was fifteen years old "I had an experience that I recollect in nearly Proustian detail, listening for the first time to the String Quartet C-sharp minor, Op.131. I was sitting in the living room of a friend's home when her father put a recording of it on the hi-fi. I remember everything about thos...