Where does es muss sein come from?

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"There is The gentleman named Dempkin owed Beethoven fifty gold coins, so Beethoven, who was always short of money, came to ask for money. Poor Dempkin sighed: "Esmusssein?" He smiled and replied: 'esmusssein! ' Later, he wrote down these words and their tones in his notebook, and composed a short quartet based on this very real motive: three of them sang 'esmuss

sein, ja, ja, ja', the fourth person continued singing: 'heraus

mit

dem

Beutel!'

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"A year later, in the fourth chapter of his last quartet, numbered 135, this motive became the core motive. No longer Dempkin's purse. 'esmusssein

' These words had taken on an increasingly solemn tone to him, as if they were the words of fate. For Kant, even a "Good morning", if said correctly, may sound like a metaphysical proposition..."

"In this way, Beethoven composed the humorous inspiration into The familiar quartet turns a joke into a metaphysical truth. This is an interesting example of the change from light to weight (that is, Parmenides' theory of positive and negative changes). Strangely, we don't seem to get it right. Such a transformation expresses surprise. If Beethoven had turned the serious quartet into a quartet about a dull joke about Dempkin's repayment, it would certainly have caused our anger, because it is in the spirit of Parmenides. He turned the heavy into the light, the negative into the positive! What started out as a great metaphysical truth turned out to be nothing more than a boring joke! We will never think like Parmenides again. "