![]() ![]() Any work of this sort undertaken without the occasional accompaniment of interested friends is doomed to whistle tunelessly in the dark. It is my pleasure as well to acknowledge my esteemed colleagues in the music department at Princeton, both composers and musicologists, current and emeritus, and to thank department manager Marilyn Ham and her staff I cannot imagine a more supportive and enriching academic environment. And my single greatest intellectual debt is payable- as always-to Allan Keiler. The spirit of this book would surely have been diminished without Leonard Muellner, my cicerone in the Homeric world. Two professors from Brandeis University also deserve mention here. In addition, Christopher Reynolds and James Webster made many helpful suggestions for an earlier version of chapter 1, and Richard Kramer offered indispensable advice at a still earlier stage. They collectively saved me from many errors and potential mishaps those that remain are all my own. For intellectual sustenance, I need especially to applaud and thank Ian Bent, Robert Hatten, and Charles Rosen, whose generous and close readings of the manuscript proved absolutely crucial to the well-being of this book. For making possible liberal amounts of leave time from my teaching duties, I gratefully acknowledge fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from Princeton University. Production of the book was enhanced tremendously by the fine work of Lauren Oppenheim. T Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION xiii A NOTE TO THE READER XX CHAPTER ONE Beethoven's Hero 3 CHAPTER TWO Musical Values: Presence and Engagement in the Heroic Style 29 CHAPTER THREE Institutional Values: Beethoven and the Theorists 66 CHAPTER FOUR Cultural Values: Beethoven, the Goethezeit, and the Heroic Concept of Self 112 CHAPTER FIVE Beethoven Hero 147 NOTES 169 BIBLIOGRAPHY 195 INDEX 203 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I OWE MUCH to Elizabeth Powers, former fine arts editor at Princeton University Press, who has been a guiding spirit in this project from its first glimmers to its completion. Copyright © 1992 by the University of Nebraska Press This book has been composed in Palatino Music typeset by Don Giller The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R 1997) (Permanence of Paper) Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 For Dawna Lemaire I is NOT EXPECTED of critics as it is of poets that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives. ![]() 1, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. ML410.B42B84 1995 780'.92-dc20 95-8981 Chapter 1 has been adapted from "On the Programmatic Reception of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony," in Beethoven Forum, vol. Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827-Appreciation. Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827-Criticism and interpretation. Includes bibliographical references and index. ![]() BEETHOVEN HERO SCOTT BURNHAM BEETHOVEN HERO PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRINCETON, NEW PRESS JERSEY Copyright © 1995 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex All Rights Reserved Third printing, and first paperback printing, 2000 Paperback ISBN 8-9 The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition of this book as follows Burnham, Scott Beethoven Hero / Scott Burnham. ![]()
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