The Sophists, especially Gorgias would say that the power of music is rhetoric.

The Quartet, in my opinion, I dont think was a great example of rhetoric. I say this possibly with some biased behind it, but I wasn’t entertained nor persuaded throughout the performance.

It has been stated in Introduction to Greek Rhectoric that it was a goal of the symposia attendees, in this case the cadets, to preform songs that their peers would judge them appropriately to the social or religious event.

However, I do believe there is a relationship between the preformances and rhetoric. I was more so familiar with the second half of the performance after the intermisson. The program started the second half of the quartert in A minor, Op.132 by Ludwig van Beethoven. He was a well known German composer that made a remarkable transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music. Today he is still looked at as one of the most influential composers of all time. He also once stated that “Music is a higher revelation than philosophy”. Therefore, with him playing such a influential role within music, I can’t help but to think it is connected to rhetoric. If not, the composers themselves who recreated his music would become the people that were influenced and persuaded, making him the rhetor.