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Music, Meaning, and Beethoven's Most Difficult Work
by Robert S. Kahn
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 at the musical, aesthetic,
philosophical, and historical problems the work raises, considering its
history, structure and development, meaning, and response among critics
and contemporaries. Kahn also studies Beethoven's difficulties with
publishers and sponsors, his everyday life, and his character in light
of recent advances in the pharmacology of depressive illness.
The
book places both Beethoven and the Grosse Fuge in their historic and
social contexts, arguing that Beethoven intended the Fuge as the finale
of his String Quartet Opus 130 and created a substitute finale for the
quartet at his publisher's urging; not because he was unhappy with the
work. Beethoven is examined as a freelance musician: a vocation whose
members were frequently excluded from society and the protection of its
laws, including respect for copyright. Viewed in this light, Beethoven's
famous quirks and resentments become understandable, even rational.
Kahn also devotes a chapter to the phenomenon of synesthesia—a sense of
motion through three-dimensional volumes of space—examining how some
works of Western music can evoke synesthesia in listeners. He also
speculates that Beethoven's creative dry spell in his late 40s was
caused by an extended bout with clinical depression. Written for a
general audience and including a bibliography and index, this
fascinating study will interest scholars and fans of classical music and
Beethoven.