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The possessor and the possessed : Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the idea of musical genius / Peter Kivy.
| Author/creator | Kivy, Peter |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, ©2001. |
| Description | xiv, 287 pages : portraits ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Yale series in the philosophy and theory of art Yale series in the philosophy and theory of art. ^A492260 |
| Contents | Time out of mind -- Greatness of mind -- Breaking the rule -- The Saxon or the devil -- The genius and the child -- The little man from Salzburg -- Giving the rule -- An unlicked bear -- Mozart's second childhood -- Odd men out -- Beethoven again -- Gendering genius -- Reconstructing genius. |
| Abstract | This book explores the concept of artistic genius and how it came to be symbolized by three great composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. The author, a leading thinker in musical aesthetics, delineates the two concepts of genius that were already well formed in the ancient world. Combining philosophy and the history of ideas, Kivy then develops the argument that these concepts have alternately held sway in Western thought since the beginning of the eighteenth century. He explores why this pendulum swing from the concept of the possessor to the concept of the possessed has occurred and how these concepts were given philosophical reformulations as views toward Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven as geniuses changed in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001017785 |
| ISBN | 0300087586 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Music Stacks | ML390 .K595 2001 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |