On Jan 13, 2007, at 1:09 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
DeNora's most innovative interpretation is that Beethoven's music became increasingly individual and idiosyncratic and difficult as his patrons saw supporting him as a way of enhancing their own status. It was the very strangeness of his music that made their support of him something worthy of note -- it was the very fact that he *wasn't* catering to public taste that cemented his relationship with those patrons.
One thing that's been missing so far in this thread is the distinction to be made between an artwork's patrons and its audience. These can be (IMO usually are) very, very different things.
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