Beethoven & freedom
By: Daniel K L Chua
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780199769322
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Liberty in music
Other titles: Beethoven and freedom
Description: "By exploring the musical philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno through a wide range of the composer's music, 'Beethoven and Freedom' arrives at a markedly different vision of freedom. Daniel K L Chua suggests that a more human and fragile concept of freedom can be found in the music that has less to do with the autonomy of the will and its stoical corollary than with questions of human relation, donation, and a yielding to radical alterity. Chua's work makes a major and controversial statement by challenging the current image of Beethoven, and by suggesting an alterior freedom that can speak ethically to the twenty-first century." --dust jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266) and index.