Beethoven and Greco-Roman Antiquity

1. Verfasser: Zanden, Jos van der
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (289 pages).
ISBN: 9781000442779
Parallelausgabe: Zanden, Jos van der, Beethoven and Greco-Roman Antiquity (Print version:) | ISSN: 9781032047096
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Aims and objectives
  • 1.2 The quest for Bildung
  • 1.3 Scholarly writing
  • 1.4 Method and structure
  • 2 Influences I: Bonn
  • 2.1 Bonn politics
  • 2.2 The French Revolution and ancient Rome
  • 2.3 Brutus and republicanism
  • 2.4 The Czerny enigma
  • 2.5 Nepos
  • 2.6 Cicero and Feder
  • 2.7 German Grossmannsucht
  • 2.8 The creed of the Illuminati: 'Read the ancients'
  • 2.9 Summary
  • 3 Influences II: Vienna
  • 3.1 Winckelmann and German Classicism
  • 3.2 Goethe and Schiller
  • 3.3 Ancient texts available in German
  • 3.4 Educational material
  • 3.5 Antiquity in opera
  • 3.6 Painting and sculpture
  • 3.7 Summary
  • 4 Greek literature I: Homer
  • 4.1 The translations by Johann Heinrich Voss
  • 4.2 References in primary sources
  • 4.3 The canon in Egerton 2795
  • 4.4 Nephew Karl's studies
  • 4.5 Beethoven's copy of the Odyssey
  • 4.6 Passages that caught Beethoven's eye
  • 4.7 The role of Schindler
  • 4.8 Summary
  • 4.9 Appendix: markings in Homer's Odyssey
  • 5 Greek literature II: xenophon, Euripides, and Greek poetry
  • 5.1 Xenophon and Platonism
  • 5.2 Euripides
  • 5.3 The Greek anthology
  • 5.4 Summary
  • 6 Literature from imperial Rome: Plutarch, Horace, and Tacitus
  • 6.1 The Schirach edition
  • 6.2 References in the sources
  • 6.3 Plutarch's characters
  • 6.4 Some effects on Beethoven
  • 6.5 Horace
  • 6.6 Tacitus
  • 6.7 Summary
  • 7 The role of Hellenistic philosophy
  • 7.1 Platonism and Stoicism
  • 7.2 Beethoven's reading
  • 7.3 Passions
  • 7.4 Moral issues
  • 7.5 Summary
  • 8 Antiquity in Beethoven's music
  • 8.1 A survey of the works
  • 8.2 Bacchus
  • 8.3 Unresolved dissonances
  • 8.4 Other opera plans
  • 8.5 Socrates
  • 8.6 The problem of Der Sieg des Kreuzes.
  • 9 Closing observations
  • 9.1 Overview and analysis of the findings
  • 9.2 Implications of the source findings
  • 9.3 Possible ramifications for the music
  • 9.4 Conclusions and recommendations
  • Literature cited
  • Index.

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