I joke about listening to Beethoven quartets rather than spending the money on an actual therapist. The punchline being, it works. This short quartet supposedly had “Muß es sein?” (Must it be?), answered with “Es muß sein!” (It must be!) in the manuscript. I think many of us have been faced with situations in the past few months that are difficult, to put it extremely mildly. Sometimes you need to listen to something old to gain bit of perspective. Beethoven was there asking the same question of patience and acceptance centuries ago, which in our current situation, I can’t have been alone in asking myself whenever something gets pulled from under you. However, in this quartet, he puts it more gracefully than I have done here.
Must it be? it must be.