The Other Beethoven: Heroism, the Canon, and the Works of 1813–

The Other Beethoven: Heroism, the Canon, and the Works of 1813––14

Published:2003 Issue:1 Volume:27 Page:3-24
ISSN:0148-2076
Container-title:19th-Century Music
language:en
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COOK NICHOLAS

Abstract

Abstract .Among Beethoven's works are a number that were highly successful in their own time but that became an embarrassment to later critics. In this article I explore the critical strategies used to explain away the success of two such works, Wellingtons Sieg and Der glorreiche Augenblick——works marginalized by the ““Beethoven Hero”” paradigm that came to regulate critical interpretation of the composer's music as well as underwriting the Beethovenian canon. I also explore ways in which such noncanonic works might be reexperienced, reading Wellingtons Sieg in terms of an aesthetic of hyper-representation and Der glorreiche Augenblick in terms of the enactment of community: such approaches, I argue, give access to aspects of Beethoven's music that the ““Beethoven Hero”” paradigm suppressed.

Publisher

University of California Press

Subject

Music

Link

http://online.ucpress.edu/ncm/article-pdf/27/1/3/312866/ncm_2003_27_1_3.pdf

Reference155 articles.

1. 1 My thanks to William Drabkin and Matthew Head for their comments on a draft of this article; I have appropriated several of their suggestions without further acknowledgment. J. Merrill Knapp, "Beethoven's Mass in C Major, Op. 86," in Beethoven Essays: Studies in Honor of Elliot Forbes, ed. Lewis Lockwood and Phyllis Benjamin (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Department of Music, 1984), p. 199 (pp. 199-216).

2. 2 Maynard Solomon, Beethoven (London: Macmillan, 1977), p. 222.

3. 3 William Kinderman, Beethoven (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 2.

4. 4 A. E. F. Dickinson, Beethoven (London: Thomas Nelson, 1941), p. 176; the references are to Ernest Walker and Paul Bekker.

5. 5 J. W. N. Sullivan, Beethoven: His Spiritual Development (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927), p. 197.

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