#Ludwig van Beethoven

Source: Good News Network 30 years ago today, Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, premiered in New York City. The film won four Academy Awards—Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director (Barry Levinson), and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Hoffman. The highest-grossing

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos,” Mary Shelley observed in contemplating how creativity works in her preface to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein. “It is strange the way ideas come when

Author: Matthew Davis / Source: Big Think History is full of anecdotes of unempathetic and arrogant geniuses, from Beethoven to Picasso. An emerging stream of research has uncovered that many creative people are not successful in spite of their unpleasant personalities, but because of them — at

Author: Karl Smallwood / Source: Today I Found Out The result of years of work and representing the absolute pinnacle of Beethoven’s skill as both a composer and musician, Symphony No. 9 is widely considered one of the single finest pieces of music ever created- a fact made all the more