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This title in other formats:Late Beethovenby Maynard Solomon
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In a series of powerful strokes, the music of Beethoven's last years redefined his legacy. Solomon investigates the phenomenon of the final phase, focusing especially on the striking metamorphosis in Beethoven's system of beliefs. Synopsis:A trade-oriented study of the final years of Beethoven's life, exploring the intellectual, political, and spiritual currents that influecced the composer's musical masterpieces, written by the foremost American Beethoven scholar. Synopsis:"Maynard Solomon writes with an unrivaled control of a vast cultural and intellectual sweep that reaches beyond Ancient Greece, and with a graceful precision that disguises the rich complexity of his ideas. Distilling from the late works their sources in both the overarching themes of mankind and the troubled psyche of the composer, he has forever altered a familiar landscape."--Richard Kramer, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and author of "Distant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song "With a bow to the immortal study by J.W.N. Sullivan, "Late Beethoven could have also been called "Beethoven: His Spiritual Development." Solomon weaves amazingly diverse threads, chapter by chapter, into the fabric of Beethoven's belief system, his take on nature, divinity, human purpose, morality, and the mission of music. This is a book of surprises by an author whose combination of breadth of thought, imaginativeness, aesthetic sensitivity, and learning is really wonderful.--Joseph Kerman, author, with Alan Tyson, of "The New Grove Beethoven Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-300) and indexes.
Table of ContentsPrologue : a sea change — The end of a beginning : the "Diabelli" variations — Beyond classicism — Some romantic images — Pastoral, rhetoric, structure : the Violin sonata in G, op. 96 — Reason and imagination : the aesthetic dimension — The Seventh symphony and the rhythms of antiquity — The Masonic thread — The Masonic imagination — The shape of a journey : the "Diabelli" variations — Intimations of the sacred — The sense of an ending : the Ninth symphony — The healing power of music.
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