A dignified picture full of much that is beautiful and (this is the best thing in it) the leading role is reverently and effectively acted by a first rate player. A grandly tragic story of the deaf composer has been grandly portrayed. It is a picture for cultivated spectators. The dream scenes that illustrate the symphonies are very inadequate, of course. They will probably displease true music lovers; but the scenes that suggest the closing-in of deafness, and the last scenes, especially that in which is symbolically shown the glory of his last great symphony, that his mortal ears never heard, are strong and emotional. We like this picture very much and a good sized audience that saw it with us seemed to be impressed by it. - The Moving Picture World, October 26, 1912
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