This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... VII. Beethoven and his earlier piano Sonatas "One may say that Beethoven was and remained Sonata-composer; for in the case of by far the most and best of his instrumental works the sonata-form was the woven veil through which he looked into the world of musical sound, or rather through which, emerging ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... VII. Beethoven and his earlier piano Sonatas "One may say that Beethoven was and remained Sonata-composer; for in the case of by far the most and best of his instrumental works the sonata-form was the woven veil through which he looked into the world of musical sound, or rather through which, emerging from this world, he spoke to us; while other forms, especially those of mixed vocal music, despite his remarkable contributions in them, were still only touched by him, tentatively as it were, and in passing." E have spoken of the place and work of the " Individual in the history of Art. The old Conventions, Customs, Moralities, come down from the past, overawing mankind with their lofty mien; stalking like great shadows through the galleries of Time; clothed indeed in the very forms of the gods. The individual attacks, deposes, dethrones, them. He is a blasphemer and an atheist. Yet presently the scene changes; the New-comer now is exalted, and in his turn becomes one of the shadow - celestials, while the former figures grow Richard Wagner. dim behind his. Thus does Satan, the spirit of denial, lead the way! Beethoven had this Titanic quality about him. You see it in his face: what wilfulness, what determination, what selfness !--and yet a self that existed only to utter what those prophetic eyes had seen. Everything conspired in Beethoven to make his utterance authentic, strong, unqualified -- like a gushing spring which leaps from the inaccessible depths of the mountain. His solitary habits kept his mind clear from the mud and sediment which the market-place and the forum mistake for thought; his deafness coming on at so early an age (twentyeight) increased this effect, it left him fancy-free in the world of music; Wagner even...
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