Beethoven-Geflechte / A Beethoven Tapestry: Networks and Cultures of Memory

Author:   Birgit Lodes ,  Melanie Unseld
Publisher:   Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
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9783700191865


Pages:   518
Publication Date:   21 August 2024
Format:   Paperback
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English summary: Beethoven, the loner - that is the historiographical image that has long dominated biographies and research on Beethoven. But while this image resonates with the enduring impression of the artistic genius, its credibility founders when one examines more closely his life and environment during his first decades in Vienna. Here, as a pianist and composer, as a teacher and witty conversationalist, Beethoven belonged to an expansive and close-knit tapestry of social, artistic, professional, family and friend-based relationships. And it is the social circles Beethoven encountered as he settled in the cultural and political metropolis, as well as how he negotiated his way through and communicated musically within them, that are newly put up for discussion in this edited volume. The political turbulence of the early 19th century saw the aristocracy's authority increasingly displaced, transforming the social and cultural conditions in countless ways and newly determining who should be remembered and how. This meant that a composer like Beethoven - aided by his self-mythologization as an anti-feudal, bourgeois artist and eccentric genius - could easily be incorporated into the heroic historical narrative that characterized the contemporary political tide. The occasion celebrated in the present volume - the Beethoven anniversary year of 2020 - therefore also offers the opportunity to trace and rethink the after-effects of this culture of remembrance, including how Beethoven's image continued to evolve throughout the 20th century. German description: ? Beethoven, der Einzelganger: Dieses historiographische Bild beherrscht seit Langem Beethoven-Biographik wie Beethoven-Forschung. So gut dieses Bild in das Narrativ eines Kunstlergenies passt, so unscharf wird es, betrachtet man Beethovens Lebenswelten in den ersten Dekaden seiner Wiener Zeit genauer. Hier war Beethoven als Pianist und Komponist, als Lehrer und humorvoller Gesprachspartner Teil eines grossflachigen Geflechts aus gesellschaftlichen, kunstlerischen, professionellen, verwandtschaftlichen und freundschaftlichen Beziehungen. Auf welche gesellschaftlichen Zirkel Beethoven traf als er sich in der kulturellen und politischen Metropole niederliess, wie sich Beethoven in diesen Zirkeln bewegte und musikalisch kommunizierte, stellt der vorliegende Sammelband neu zur Diskussion. In den politischen Turbulenzen des fruhen 19. Jahrhunderts wurde die Autoritat der Aristokratie immer weiter zuruckgedrangt, was die sozialen und kulturellen Verhaltnisse auf vielfaltige Weise veranderte und die Erinnerungskultur, an wen und wie man sich erinnern sollte, neu bestimmte. Ein Komponist wie Beethoven konnte auf diese Weise, auch durch Selbstreprasentation als anti-feudaler, burgerlicher Kunstler oder als exzentrisches Genie, in eine heroische Geschichtserzahlung eingefugt werden, die den politischen Zeitlauften entgegenkam. Der Anlass des vorliegenden Bandes, das Beethoven-Jubilaumsjahr 2020, bietet daher auch die Gelegenheit, die weitere Folge dieser Erinnerungskultur und die damit verbundenen Veranderungen des Beethoven-Bildes bis in das 20. Jahrhundert zu verfolgen.

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Author:   Birgit Lodes ,  Melanie Unseld
Publisher:   Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Imprint:   Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9783700191865


ISBN 10:   3700191863
Pages:   518
Publication Date:   21 August 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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