Die Zwei Leben Des Ludwig Van Beethoven

Die zwei Leben des Ludwig van Beethoven

"Beethoven ist nicht der Kunst-Heros, der niemanden braucht und alles ganz allein aus sich heraus zu schaffen vermag, wie man dies seit fast zweihundert Jahren so gern dargestellt hat. Vielmehr bedurfte er immer der anderen." Ulrich Drüner, langjähriger Orchestermusiker und Musikantiquar, erzählt das Leben Ludwig van Beethovens aus einer ganz neuen Perspektive. Dass Beethoven sich nach der Erkrankung des Gehörsinns als Künstler aus der Krise heraus neu entfalten konnte, verdankt er zu großen Teilen seiner „unsterblichen Geliebten“ und der bisher unterschätzten tiefen Freundschaft mit dem österreichischen Erzherzog Rudolph. Beide verhalfen dem Komponisten zu einem zweiten Leben. Das Leid seiner späten Jahre rührt, wie Ulrich Drüner ausführt, nicht nur von der fortschreitenden Vereinsamung, sondern auch aus dem Umstand, dass Beethoven davon überzeugt war, mit der „unsterblichen Geliebten“ ein Kind gezeugt zu haben. Sehen durfte er dieses Kind nie. Ludwig van Beethovens einst fortschrittliche Einstellung gegenüber Frauen erfuhr dadurch eine folgenreiche Wandlung. Nicht nur deswegen weicht in dieser Biografie der Mythos vom unbeugsamen Republikaner einer differenzierteren Darstellung.

Music and Desire Among the Austro-German Romantics

Investigates the composition and reception of works by key Romantics such as Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Wagner and the Schumanns with attention to the role of sexual desire in the composers' lives and music.Scholars have for several decades been devoting increasing attention to aspects of sexuality and desire in the music of the Austro-German Romantics. Undertaking a close analysis of the sources, the four chapters of this book show how our assumptions about what those composers desired are often in fact contingent on what we, their commentators, have wanted them to desire over the course of reception history. Beethoven's Fidelio and Schubert's Winterreise tend to be regarded as a hymn to freedom, on the one hand, and an interior monologue of an alienated lover, on the other, though in neither case does such a view correspond to what the composer intended. In contrast, Richard Wagner dismissed his own opera The Ban on Love as a youthful indiscretion extolling the "free love" of the Young German movement; but he was reinterpreting an early work to align it with his later aesthetic. The final chapter examines the chronology of the friendship of Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms in order to discern the likely truths about their triangular relationship before and after Robert Schumann's incarceration in a mental asylum. By adhering to the sources and placing them in the social, linguistic, and geographical contexts of their time, author Chris Walton grants all these protagonists a greater agency of desire than has hitherto been the case.t he was reinterpreting an early work to align it with his later aesthetic. The final chapter examines the chronology of the friendship of Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms in order to discern the likely truths about their triangular relationship before and after Robert Schumann's incarceration in a mental asylum. By adhering to the sources and placing them in the social, linguistic, and geographical contexts of their time, author Chris Walton grants all these protagonists a greater agency of desire than has hitherto been the case.

Ludwig van Beethoven's Leben