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Beethoven
The Philosophy of Music
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This volume is especially valuable for those interested in philosophy, sociology, music, and history, offering an in-depth study of the composer’s life and legacy.
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This book is ideal for students and researchers in philosophy, sociology, musicology, and history, as well as anyone deeply interested in Beethoven and the interplay between art and society.
Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote extensive notes, essay fragments and aides-memoires on the subject of Beethoven's music. This book brings together all of Beethoven's music in relation to the society in which he lived.
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Beethoven is a classic study of the composer's music, written by one of the most important thinkers of our time. Throughout his life, Adorno wrote extensive notes, essay fragments, and aides-memoires on the subject of Beethoven's music. This book brings together all of Beethoven's music in relation to the society in which he lived.
Adorno identifies three periods in Beethoven's work, arguing that the thematic unity of the first and second periods begins to break down in the third. Adorno follows this progressive disintegration of organic unity in the classical music of Beethoven and his contemporaries, linking it with the rationality and monopolistic nature of modern society.
Beethoven will be welcomed by students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines—philosophy, sociology, music, and history—and by anyone interested in the life of the composer.
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Martin Jay of the University of California, Berkeley, praises the book for revealing Adorno’s intellectual process through his extensive yet incomplete notes, emphasizing the inherent resistance of great art to theoretical categorisation. The work’s reconstruction by Rolf Tiedemann and editing by Edmund Jephcott are lauded for their clarity and elegance.
Max Paddison from the University of Durham highlights how the fragments illuminate Adorno’s musical philosophy origins and commends the sensitive editing and magnificent translation, resulting in a coherent and insightful volume.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780745614670
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 05 September 1998
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 161.0mm
Height: 239.0mm
Weight: 539g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), a prominent member of the Frankfurt School, was one of the most influential thinkers of this century in the areas of social theory, philosophy and aesthetics.
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