Ignition: Beethoven: Reception Documents from the Paul Sacher Foundation

Ignition: Beethoven: Reception Documents from the Paul Sacher Foundation
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
27 November 2020
Pages
220
ISBN
9781783275908

Ignition: Beethoven: Reception Documents from the Paul Sacher Foundation

Although the notion of a musical mainstream with Beethoven as its fons et origo barely holds today, countless composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have referred to Beethoven in their music or creatively sought to distance themselves from him. This volume illustrates his ongoing relevance using documents from the collections of the Paul Sacher Foundation. Designed to accompany the eponymous exhibition in the Bonn Beethovenhaus, itadopts the four thematic areas of that exhibition: Learning and Teaching with Beethoven,
Idealizations,
Strategies of Reference, and Distortion - Dismantlement. It explores the contexts, techniques, and ideological thrustsof Beethoven references in musicians of very wide-ranging backgrounds, from Anton Webern, Bela Bartok, and Richard Strauss to Mauricio Kagel, Cathy Berberian, and Kaija Saariaho. The selected documents are captured in photographic reproduction and accompanied by detailed commentary. Each section is preceded by an introductory essay discussing general aspects of recent Beethoven reception.

A publication of the Paul Sacher Foundation

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