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June '22

Fixing the

Beethoven

Mistake

Is there a problem to solve?

"The metronome markings will be sent to you very soon. Do wait for them. In our century such indications are certainly necessary."

Ludwig van Beethoven, 1826

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young, or very new to the field whose paradigm they change. And perhaps that point need not have been made explicit, for obviously these are men who, being little committed by prior practice to the traditional rules of normal science, are particularly likely to see that those rules no longer define a playable game and to conceive another set that can replace them.

Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions