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The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius. (Book Reviews: Diverse Topics).
The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius. By Peter Kivy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. [xiv, 287 p. ISBN 0-300-08758-6. $35.] Illustrations, bibliography, index.
Peter Kivy's latest book is a departure for the author, who has earned a reputation for carefully argued, often controversial views on musical aesthetics. Kivy returns here to one of his earliest interests: the way by which musical genius is perceived and understood. This is not to say that aesthetics play no role in the book; Kivy's exegeses of Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, and a variety of other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers ...
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