The Beethoven Syndrome
The Beethoven Syndrome The Beethoven Syndrome is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change, but only in…
Specifikacia The Beethoven Syndrome
The Beethoven Syndrome
The Beethoven Syndrome is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change, but only in retrospect, for it was not until after his death that listeners began to hear composers in general--and not just Beethoven--in their works, particularly in their instrumental music.The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography traces the rise, fall, and persistence of this mode of listening from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. This was a radically new way of listening that emerged only after Beethoven's death.
But through a confluence of musical, philosophical, Prior to 1830, composers and audiences alike operated within a framework of rhetoric in which the burden of intelligibility lay squarely on the composer, whose task it was to move listeners in a calculated way.