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Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge - Music, Meaning, and Beethoven's Most Difficult Work (Paperback)
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Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge - Music, Meaning, and Beethoven's Most Difficult Work (Paperback)
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The Grosse Fuge, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in his late
period, has an involved and complicated history. Written for a
string quartet but published as an independent work, the piece
raises interesting questions about whether music without words can
have meaning, and invokes speculation about the composer and his
frame of mind when he wrote it. Kahn looks closely at the musical,
aesthetic, philosophical, and historical problems the work raises,
considering its history, structure and development, meaning, and
response among critics and contemporaries. Kahn also studies
Beethoven's difficulties with publishers and sponsors, his everyday
life, and his character in light of recent advances in the
pharmacology of depressive illness. The book places both Beethoven
and the Grosse Fuge in their historic and social contexts, arguing
that Beethoven intended the Fuge as the finale of his String
Quartet Opus 130 and created a substitute finale for the quartet at
his publisher's urging; not because he was unhappy with the work.
Beethoven is examined as a freelance musician: a vocation whose
members were frequently excluded from society and the protection of
its laws, including respect for copyright. Viewed in this light,
Beethoven's famous quirks and resentments become understandable,
even rational. Kahn also devotes a chapter to the phenomenon of
synesthesia a sense of motion through three-dimensional volumes of
space examining how some works of Western music can evoke
synesthesia in listeners. He also speculates that Beethoven's
creative dry spell in his late 40s was caused by an extended bout
with clinical depression. Written for a general audience and
including a bibliography and index, this fascinating study will
interest scholars and fans of classical music and Beethoven.
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