Anthem Of A Heartbreak
Just today, I have mentioned something on my Facebook wall regarding how Beethoven’s music has been helping me recover from wallowing in pain after that entirely cathartic and overly emotional relationship breakup I had September of last year and still have the gall to brood over until now. Of course, occasionally being at the same place with the person mainly responsible for one’s emotional stupor can be very challenging, notwithstanding the fact that memories (whether good or bad) would keep flooding the senses, eventually setting one’s mood on fire or worse, yet another anxiety attack. These days were very much crucial—of course, I won’t go into details; I’ll have to leave that to myself and perhaps my counselor or doctor some other time—and the strain to my emotional well-being has escalated in one way or another. So what better respite than to obtain a handful of Beethoven’s symphonies and masterpieces and torrent the whole thing to my hard drive? Since I’d want to play all those on loop via my CD player-cum-radio, I had to burn all 9 symphonies on blank compact disks which I successfully executed in a matter of hours by means of ImgBurn (the software, though, has this itsy-bitsy complication when burning audio files into CD format, not to mention that of handling. flac files—the format of my downloaded Beethoven music). With some labour of love and patience to boot, the entire collection of masterpieces are now ready for my auditory consumption and appreciation.
So far, with Beethoven’s symphonies accompanying me through my every day occupations, dwelling on uncalled-for nostalgia has been appeased to some degree. Ah, the magic of classical music…
(My next download would be a complete selection of Mozart: symphonies, piano concertos, missae, and all. Then, perhaps, the next few days might see me fiddling with Haydn, Bach, or more of Mendelssohn. Who knows.)
