Beethoven: Key Thinkers at the University of Sydney

BEETHOVEN AND THE MODERN - Associate Professor Peter McCallum, Musicology and Deputy Chair Academic Board
The music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) became an evolving symbol of the modern, from its invocation by Wagner in sketching a Zukunfstmusik a music of the future to the particular prestige it enjoyed among the creators of various twentieth century modernisms: in literature, TS Eliot, and Thomas Mann; in the visual arts Klinger, Klimpt and Bourdelle; in philosophy in the writings of Adorno, and of course in the dominant streams of musical modernity from Schoenberg to Boulez. This lecture looks at how these aspects of Beethovens music encouraged this identification with progressive modernity. Using examples from his works, it examines key themes that have been linked with the modern liberation and heroic defiance, spiritual alienation and transcendence, inscrutable autonomy and self-sufficiency and a new conception of musical time that, as one of his first critics, ETA Hoffmann noted, projects the listener forward into an apprehension of the infinite.

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[CaptainBluebear08]

What the professor is talking about, is very fascinating. I'd like to have that on YT, actually.