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Music
means different things to different people and sometimes even different things
to the same person at different moments of his life. It might be poetic,
philosophical, sensual, or mathematical, but in any case it must, in my view,
have something to do with the soul of the human being. Hence it is
metaphysical; but the means of expression is purely and exclusively physical:
sound. I believe it is precisely this permanent coexistence of metaphysical
message through physical means that is the strength of music. (46)It is also
the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is
articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.
Beethoven’s
importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of
his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of
harmony and structure. Sometimes I feel in his late works a will to break all
signs of continuity. The music is abrupt and seemingly disconnected, as in the
last piano sonata. In musical expression, he did not feel restrained by the
weight of convention. (47)By all accounts he was a freethinking person, and
a courageous one, and I find courage an essential quality for the
understanding, let alone the performance, of his works.
This
courageous attitude in fact becomes a requirement for the performers of
Beethoven’s music. His compositions demand the performer to show courage, for
example in the use of dynamics. (48)Beethoven’s habit of increasing the
volume with an intense crescendo and then abruptly following it with a sudden
soft passage was only rarely used by composers before him.
Beethoven
was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not
interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behavior
and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society. (49)Especially
significant was his view of freedom, which, for him, was associated with the
rights and responsibilities of the individual: he advocated freedom of thought
and of personal expression.
Beethoven’s music tends to move from chaos to
order as if order were an imperative of human existence. For him, order does
not result from forgetting or ignoring the disorders that plague our existence;
order is a necessary development, an improvement that may lead to the Greek
ideal of spiritual elevation. It is not by chance that the Funeral March is not
the last movement of the Eroica Symphony, but the second, so that suffering
does not have the last word. (50)One could interpret much of the work of
Beethoven by saying that suffering is inevitable, but the courage to fight it
renders life worth living.
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