Beethoven & Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780199769322 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Daniel K. L. Chua

Opis

Over the last two hundred years, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with modernity's 'absolute' value-freedom. Author Daniel KL Chua explores how Beethoven's music engages with freedom's aspirations and dilemmas, challenging the current image of Beethoven, and suggesting an alterior freedom that can speak ethically to the twenty-first century.

Recenzje

The book not only sums up Chua's own work but stands for an entire body of dialectical, Romantic Beethoven criticism in which 'freedom' has played a central role. In erudite and philosophically literate ways, Chua's work elaborates on this critical tradition and the image of Beethoven it has propagated, canonises and codifies it rather than refuting it wholesale.

O autorze

Daniel KL Chua is currently professor of music at the University of Hong Kong. Before joining Hong Kong University to head the School of Humanities, he was a fellow and the Director of Studies at St. John's College, Cambridge, and later Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at King's College London. He was a Henry Fellow at Harvard University and is the recipient of the 2004 Royal Musical Association's Dent Medal. He is the President of the International Musicological Society.