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Unfinished Music (Paperback)
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Unfinished Music draws its inspiration from the riddling aphorism
by Walter Benjamin that serves as its epigraph: "the work is the
death mask of its conception." The work in its finished, perfected
state conceals the enlivening process engaged in its creation.
Author Richard Kramer moves from some explosive ideas of J. G.
Hamann, on the place of language at the seat of thought, to explore
the no less radical music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, whose bold
idiosyncrasies, like Hamann's, disrupted the discourse of
Enlightenment aesthetics. In several chapters on the late music of
Beethoven, Bach reappears, a spiritual alter ego in the search for
a new voice. Music seductively unfinished lies at the center of the
book: unstudied late sketches, finally rejected, for a famous
quartet movement by Beethoven; the enigmas set loose in several
remarkable Mozart fragments; the romanticizing of fragment and its
bearing on two important sonatas that Schubert left incomplete.
Finally, the author returns to Benjamin's epigraph, drawing
together his essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities, Mann's Death in
Venice, and the draft for a difficult passage in the andantino of
Schubert's Sonata in A (1828).
Unfinished Music explores with subtle insight the uneasy
relationship between the finished work and the elusive, provocative
traces of the profound labors buried in its past. The book will
appeal to music scholars, theorists and performers, indeed to all
for whom music is integral to the history of ideas.
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