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Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination.(Book Review)
Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination. By Maynard Solomon. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2003. [xi, 327 pp. ISBN 0-520-23746-3. $29.95.] Index, bibliography, music examples.
How Beethoven's intellectual concerns affected the creative work of his last 15 years is the underlying issue in Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination, a collection of 13 essays comprising both previously published and new contributions on the composer's outlook and the spiritual resonance of his music. In the conviction that Beethoven's later music explores different worlds than his earlier works, Solomon draws on an impressive ...
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...political agenda in mind. Prefacing Beethoven's Choral Symphony with Schoenberg...of frozen lyricism, typical of late Beethoven, seems to lead nowhere - straight...man. This was post-Holocaust Beethoven. It was a challenging way to start...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination.(Book Review)