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Beethoven at 250: A Literary Miscellany

Beethoven at 250: A Literary Miscellany LAWRENCE KRAMER Sadly, 2020 will surely be remembered as the year the “highest” art—and not Western classical of the coronavirus rather than as the occasion of music, either, as we say today, but just music, Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Nonetheless, the period. birthday is there to be observed, and it did not feel Of course we have come to regard this mode right for this journal to fail in observing it. The of thinking as problematic, to say the least, and form of our observance is the following collection have worked hard to understand the histories of passages from distinguished non-musicians: of music(s) in different, more inclusive, and novelists, poets, and a pair of philosophers whose more material ways. This miscellany may literary style is as important to their thought as accordingly, beyond its curiosity value, offer any thesis they might propose. The passages an opportunity to reassess what was at stake appear in loose chronological order and span the in the broad cultural use of “Beethoven” as a “long century” of the journal’s coverage period. magic word for so many years, to observe how They do not include the most famous or infamous the usage changed, and, in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png 19th-Century Music University of California Press

Beethoven at 250: A Literary Miscellany

Kramer, Lawrence
19th-Century Music , Volume 44 (1): 16 – Jul 1, 2020
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LAWRENCE KRAMER Sadly, 2020 will surely be remembered as the year the “highest” art—and not Western classical of the coronavirus rather than as the occasion of music, either, as we say today, but just music, Beethoven’s 250th birthday. Nonetheless, the period. birthday is there to be observed, and it did not feel Of course we have come to regard this mode right for this journal to fail in observing it. The of thinking as problematic, to say the least, and form of our observance is the following collection have worked hard to understand the histories of passages from distinguished non-musicians: of music(s) in different, more inclusive, and novelists, poets, and a pair of philosophers whose more material ways. This miscellany may literary style is as important to their thought as accordingly, beyond its curiosity value, offer any thesis they might propose. The passages an opportunity to reassess what was at stake appear in loose chronological order and span the in the broad cultural use of “Beethoven” as a “long century” of the journal’s coverage period. magic word for so many years, to observe how They do not include the most famous or infamous the usage changed, and, in the

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