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Late Beethoven - Music, Thought, Imagination (Paperback, New Ed)
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Late Beethoven - Music, Thought, Imagination (Paperback, New Ed)
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In a series of powerful strokes, the music of BeethovenOCOs last
years redefined his legacy and enlarged the realm of experience
accessible to the creative imagination. Maynard SolomonOCOs "Late
Beethoven" investigates the phenomenon of the final phase, focusing
especially on the striking metamorphosis in BeethovenOCOs system of
beliefs that began early in his fifth decade and eventually
amounted to a sweeping realignment of his views of nature,
antiquity, divinity, and human purpose.Using the composerOCOs
letters, diaries, and conversation books, Solomon traces
BeethovenOCOs attraction to a constellation of heterogeneous ideas,
drawn from Romanticism, Freemasonry, comparative religion, Eastern
initiatory ritual, Mediterranean mythology, aesthetics, and
classical and contemporary thought. Through these often arcane
sources, Beethoven gained access to a vast reservoir of imagery and
ideas with the potential to expand musicOCOs expressive and
communicative reach. This multitude of productive images, writes
Solomon, provided kindling for the blaze of his imagination."Late
Beethoven" is a rich tapestry of original perspectives on
BeethovenOCOs music. Solomon sees the Seventh Symphony as a
deployment of the rhythms of antiquity in an effort to revalidate
the premises of the Classical world; the Ninth as an essay on the
prospects and limits of affirmative, monumental endings; and the
Diabelli Variations as a doorway to the universe of metaphoric
significances that attach to beginnings. In the Violin Sonata in G,
op. 96, Solomon finds a restoration of the full range of pastoral
experience that the ancient poets had known. In the Grosse Fuge he
locates issues of fragmentation and reassembly, and he suggests
that pivotal passages of the last sonatas evoke sacred states of
being.These stimulating perspectives illuminate the inner world
within which Beethoven dwelled during his last fifteen years and
the ways in which his thought and music may be interrelated.
Written in accessible and eloquent prose, and with numerous music
examples, "Late Beethoven" is a serious contribution to
understanding this miraculous quantum leap in BeethovenOCOs
creative evolution."
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