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Beethoven essays / Maynard Solomon.
| Author/creator | Solomon, Maynard |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1988. |
| Description | xi, 375 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Music and myth. The ninth symphony: a search for order -- The interior dimension. Beethoven's birth year ; The nobility pretense ; The dreams of Beethoven ; The posthumous life of Ludwig Maria van Beethoven ; On Beethoven's deafness -- Biography and creativity. Thoughts on biography ; The creative periods of Beethoven ; Beethoven's creative process: a two-part invention ; Beethoven and his nephew: a reappraisal -- The immortal beloved. Recherche de Josephine Deym ; Antonie Brentano and Beethoven -- Some varieties of utopia. Beethoven's Magazin der Kunst ; Beethoven and Schiller ; The quest for faith -- The tagebuch. Beethoven's tagebuch. |
| Abstract | In this book, the author explores Beethoven's inner life, visionary outlook, and creativity, in a series of profound studies of this colossal figure of our civilization. Solomon deftly fuses a variety of investigative approaches, from rigorous historical and ideological studies to imaginative musical and psychoanalytic speculations. Thus, after closely documenting Beethoven's birth and illegitimacy fantasies, his "Family Romance," and his pretense of nobility, Solomon offers extraordinary interpretations of the composer's dreams, deafness, and obsessive relationship to his nephew. And, following his detailed uncovering of a complex network of recurrent patterns in the Ninth Symphony, he considers the narrative and mythic implications of Beethoven's formal design. Solomon examines the broad patterns of Beethoven's creative evolution and processes of composition, the radical modernism of his music, and his intellectual, religious, and utopian strivings. A separate section on the "Immortal Beloved" includes the fullest biography of Antonia Brentano yet published. Closing the volume is Solomon's translation and annotated edition of Beethoven's Tagebuch, the moving, intimate diary that the composer kept during the critical period that culminated in his last style. |
| General note | Includes music. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-353). |
| LCCN | 87034227 |
| ISBN | 0674063775 (alk. paper) |