Beethoven's critics : aesthetic dilemmas and resolutions during the composer's lifetime / Robin Wallace.
| Author/creator |
Wallace, Robin |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1986. |
| Description | viii, 184 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | The Leipzig Allgemeine, Musikalische Zeitung -- Berlin and A.B. Marx -- Other German sources: the controversy over the late music -- French Beethoven criticism -- The Fifth Symphony. |
| Abstract | The author discusses the philosophical and analytical implications of these reviews and reassesses what has come to be the accepted view of a nineteenth-century musical aesthetics rooted in Romantic Idealism. Wallace sees Beethoven's critics as in fact providing a link between two apparently antithetical approaches to music: the eighteenth-century emphasis on expression and extra-musical interpretation and the nineteenth-century emphasis on 'absolute' music and formal analysis. This book thus provides, in addition to a carefully documented study of Beethoven's critical reception, a re-evaluation of his oeuvre and its significance in music history. An index of all reviews cited is provided, and a further appendix contains the quoted material in its original language. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-180) and index. |
| LCCN | 86008250 |
| ISBN | 0521306620 |
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