There's something ethereal about sitting and listening intently to classical music. I just took an hour to myself to sit down, grabbed some high quality headphones, a recording and score to Beethoven's Symphony 2.

As I followed the score with the recording, I began to wonder, what was Beethoven thinking? He made a point of saying that he never wrote music to portray a picture except when specified specifically, such as his sixth symphony. Mostly he wrote his music in dedication to an individual who he esteemed highly, such as Gotfried van Swieten or Napolean Bonaparte (that is, until he proclaimed himself Emperor of the French. Beethoven was then disgusted by him). Now I ask, what did he see in them that made him think this way? And exactly what, from said individuals, produced sounds which could only be understood when put into a musical dialect? Do people emit music that only certain people can hear? And is it then said person's responsibilty to write the symphony down because only they were able to interpret the music emitting from other said person? Do I make music in someone else's ears?

Nah. Beethoven was deaf anyways.