Tolstoy believes that Beethoven's 9th Symphony is bad art because

A. music is incapable of transmitting the highest religious feeling.
B. it mixes poetry and music.

C. in an age before recordings, few people had an opportunity to hear a symphony that required a large orchestra and a chorus.

D. the feelings transmitted by the music did not unite all people, but only a few.

E. Both A and D


Answer: E

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