Beethoven was invariably angry when asked to explain the meaning if his music: first, he thought and hoped that the meaning was perfectly clear, and second, he was afraid that his poetic idea would be misinterpreted as a program of which the music was a mere description.

This does not mean that a composer's feelings are nebulous: Mendelsohn wrote in 1842, 'the thoughts which are expressed to me by a piece of music are not too indefinite to be put into words, but on the contrary too definite.'


*and here is one of the subject from my dissertation.. I will have one year to write about the communication in music. Of course, that was my choice. This subject is something that I was absolutely convinced before about how hard was to explain in words what I said with music, know I will have the whole year to depict little by little for finally confusing more and more what is obviously pretty clear.