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REVIEW Review The WorkâOne Life KLAUS KROPFINGER Lewis Lockwood. Beethoven: The Music and the Life. New York: Norton, 2003. 604, xix pp. âWe are living today in an Age of Entertainment shaped and controlled by the media in which time is shattered with all the hype, speed, and moral delinquency needed to reduce anything to trivia, as you may have seen in the television commercial featuring car wreck dummies singing the âOde of Joy,â suggesting that if we cannot rise to the artistic levels of Beethoven and Schiller, perhaps we can bring them down to ours.â1 These lines by William Gaddis point emphatically at those tendencies and forces against which an author has to make a stand, who in our time shoulders the task of writing extensivelyâif not exhaustivelyâabout an artist of such enormous dimension as Ludwig van Beethoven. One must stand against the omnipresent, multifaceted, leveled, and leveling reception that tends to transform great art into commodities suitable for television and truly long-distance listening, commodities appropriate to represent the âaverage taste.â High artâ which Beethoven himself named âdifï¬cultâ and, because of this, âbeautiful, good, greatâ2â is slathered with a sauce of dull taste to suite the requirements
19th-Century Music – University of California Press
Published: Apr 1, 2004
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