{"product_id":"late-beethoven-music-thought-imagination-paperback","title":"Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaynard Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eLate Beethoven\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLate Beethoven\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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, \u003ci\u003eLate Beethoven\u003c\/i\u003e is a serious contribution to understanding this miraculous quantum leap in Beethoven's creative evolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaynard Solomon writes with an unrivaled control of a vast cultural and intellectual sweep that reaches beyond Ancient Greece, and with a graceful precision that disguises the rich complexity of his ideas. Distilling from the late works their sources in both the overarching themes of mankind and the troubled psyche of the composer, he has forever altered a familiar landscape.--Richard Kramer, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and author of \u003ci\u003eDistant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a bow to the immortal study by J.W.N. Sullivan, \u003ci\u003eLate Beethoven\u003c\/i\u003e could have also been called Beethoven: His Spiritual Development. Solomon weaves amazingly diverse threads, chapter by chapter, into the fabric of Beethoven's belief system, his take on nature, divinity, human purpose, morality, and the mission of music. This is a book of surprises by an author whose combination of breadth of thought, imaginativeness, aesthetic sensitivity, and learning is really wonderful.--Joseph Kerman, author, with Alan Tyson, of \u003ci\u003eThe New Grove Beethoven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaynard Solomon writes with an unrivaled control of a vast cultural and intellectual sweep that reaches beyond Ancient Greece, and with a graceful precision that disguises the rich complexity of his ideas. Distilling from the late works their sources in both the overarching themes of mankind and the troubled psyche of the composer, he has forever altered a familiar landscape.--Richard Kramer, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and author of \u003ci\u003eDistant Cycles: Schubert and the Conceiving of Song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With a bow to the immortal study by J.W.N. Sullivan, \u003ci\u003eLate Beethoven\u003c\/i\u003e could have also been called \"Beethoven: His Spiritual Development.\" Solomon weaves amazingly diverse threads, chapter by chapter, into the fabric of Beethoven's belief system, his take on nature, divinity, human purpose, morality, and the mission of music. This is a book of surprises by an author whose combination of breadth of thought, imaginativeness, aesthetic sensitivity, and learning is really wonderful.--Joseph Kerman, author, with Alan Tyson, of \u003ci\u003eThe New Grove Beethoven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaynard Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e is on the Graduate Faculty at the Juilliard School. He is author of \u003ci\u003eMozart: A Life \u003c\/i\u003e(1995), \u003ci\u003eBeethoven Essays \u003c\/i\u003e(1988), and \u003ci\u003eBeethoven \u003c\/i\u003e(1977, second edition 1998).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 327\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.96 x 6.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58179579215953,"sku":"9780520243392","price":53.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/TjFSZDQyME1FMk1BOXh4SXNma3VQUT09.webp?v=1757148938","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/products\/late-beethoven-music-thought-imagination-paperback","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}