“In Beethoven’s music I sense the master mind, fully conscious of the qualities of heartful soaring imagination that are god-like in a man. The striving for entity, oneness in diversity, depth in design, repose in the final expression of the whole—all these are there in common pattern between architect and musician. So I am going to a delightful, inspiring school when I listen to Beethoven’s music—music not ‘classic’—soul language never to be classified. Because of soul-depth and breath of emotional range, Beethoven’s music is in itself the greatest proof I know of divine harmony alived in the human spirit. As trees and flowering things under the changing lights of a beclouded sun pervade the all out of doors, so Beethoven pervades the universe of the soul.”
Frank Lloyd Wright, An Autobiography