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Maynard Solomon Late Beethoven (Paperback)

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Language: English Country of Origin: US Book Title: Late Beethoven : Music, Thought, Imagination Publication Year: 2004 Release Year: 2004 Item Length: 9 in Illustrator: Yes EAN: 9780520243392 ISBN: 9780520243392 Release Date: 10/04/2004 Format: Trade Paperback Number of Pages: 338 Pages ISBN-10: 0520243390 Item Height: 0.8 in Publisher: University of California Press Item Width: 6 in Genre: Music, Biography & Autobiography Subtitle: Music, Thought, Imagination Item Weight: 17.6 Oz Topic: Genres & Styles / Classical, Composers & Musicians gtin13: 9780520243392 Publication Name: Late Beethoven Author: Maynard Solomon

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Further Details Title: Late Beethoven Condition: New Subtitle: Music, Thought, Imagination Author: Maynard Solomon Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0520243390 EAN: 9780520243392 ISBN: 9780520243392 Publisher: University of California Press Genre: Music Dance & Theatre Release Date: 10/04/2004 Description: In a series of powerful strokes, the music of Beethoven's last years redefined his legacy and enlarged the realm of experience accessible to the creative imagination. Maynard Solomon's "Late Beethoven" investigates the phenomenon of the final phase, focusing especially on the striking metamorphosis in Beethoven's 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 composer's letters, diaries, and conversation books, Solomon traces Beethoven's 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 music's 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 Beethoven's 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 Beethoven's creative evolution. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Width: 23mm Item Weight: 499g Release Year: 2004 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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