The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography

ISBN-13: 9780190068479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 344 str.

Mark Evan Bonds

Opis

The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography traces the rise, fall, and persistence of a radical new mode of listening from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present.

Recenzje

It is now common to link the tumults of Beethoven's life and the struggles that we hear in his music. In this revelatory book, Bonds draws on an astonishing range of writers to explain how this happened, and how it has affected listeners and composer ever since.

O autorze

Mark Evan Bonds is the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 1992. He has served as editor-in-chief of Beethoven Forum and has published widely on music, aesthetics, and the philosophy of music.