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B�ranger was not the hymner of heroes and kings, a maker of odes; he was not Pindar.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

For not only was Beethoven the great classic presence of the German concert hall, and deemed, in the words of Lanier, the "dear living lord of tone," the "sole hymner of the whole of life."

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul