[PDF.67yj] Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge: Music, Meaning, and Beethoven's Most Difficult Work

Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge: Music, Meaning, and Beethoven's Most Difficult Work

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 | #3529312 in Books |  Scarecrow Press |  2010-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.07 x.45 x6.33l,.66 | File type: PDF | 180 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| End Of Discussion|By John Harris|According to Kahn, the conventional wisdom for the last two centuries has been that Beethoven never envisioned his Grosse Fugue as a part of his Opus 130 Quartet-- even though it repeats and amplifies themes from sections of the Quartet-- but rather always meant for it to be set aside, apart, like the aberration it was-- frantic, veering into th| |I was bowled over by the intelligence and range of Kahn's considerations, even when I do not agree with them. (Dr. Oliver Sacks, author of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain)

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The Grosse Fuge, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in his late period, has an involved and complicated history. Written for a string quartet but published as an independent work, the piece raises interesting questions about whether music without words can have meaning, and invokes speculation about the composer and his frame of mind when he wrote it. Kahn looks closely ...

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