Embracing the darkness

Stuart Yates considers the message Beethoven has for all of us

by Stuart Yates 7th April 2017

‘But you have to go through darkness in order to see the light. If you’re always in light, you don’t see it anymore. And this is the whole element of struggle – the courage to go through darkness in order to achieve light – which is the same in music as it is in every psychoanalytic process, as it is in every political process, in everything.’

– Daniel Barenboim on Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony