Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kropfinger, Klaus

Titel

The Work--One Life

Ist Teil von

• 19th century music, 2004-03, Vol.27 (3), p.287-299

Ort / Verlag

Berkeley: University of California Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]context, if understood adequately, is manifold. [...]Lockwoods treatment of context does not connect political and social background bluntly with the work of art. On the contrary, thinking and arguing circumspectly, he moves from the world of facts to the world of atmosphere and, above all, of ideas. [...]he can concludehaving observed, last but not least, the story of the title of the Third Symphony and the eradicated name Napoleon as a special aspect of contextthat, as noted above, the work offers an elaborated set of perspectives on the idea of the heroic, including the heros death (p. 211).But where does the context of artistic production start, and how far does it extend? [...]Lockwoods understanding of the La Malinconia movement in op. 18, no. 6, is based on the idea of melancholy shaped by the contrasting pair sadness and happiness.18 This is his conviction, but he nevertheless does not dismiss another, programmatically oriented view. [...]those looking for ground to stand on outside ideology may be able to do so only by recommitting themselves to analysis, which concerns itself exclusively with the structural, or recommitting to history, that is, to understanding the Ninth not as a disembodied art product out of time and space, but as the work of an artist living in a particular period and context, who carried out a project that had personal meanings that we can reconstruct from the accumulated debris that has covered his tracks since then.