----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Pace" <[email protected]>
IP: I can hardly think of anything I've read on Beethoven (and I've read a great deal) that *doesn't* claim that this work is awful. ___________________ That's because it is a truly awful piece. That it made money, and brought Beethoven acclaim is the result of public, political, sentiment. ______________ IP: that's not a view I adhere to, thinking instead that some seeds of his late style (but pre- the late quartets) were sown there. A move away from individualistic bourgeois heroism towards militarism. __________________ Warning! Linear correspondence between music and politics being attempted! The ship will self destruct in T minus 5 minutes. ___________________ IP: The whole conception of 'genius' has come under sustained scrutiny by recent Beethoven scholars. _______________ Again his genius, his troublemaking is in his music-- his "violation" and recomposition of the "rules" of harmony, melody, rhythm. I don't see any reason or need to argue about that. ____________________________________________________ IP: I don't really accept that the music doesn't in itself constitute a form of politics. ________________________ T minus 10, 9, 8, 7,................... ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
