This book comments episodically on six different artistic manifestations, with heed to how form guides, and is invested by, content, and by the significance and meaningful essence of that content. The six exemplars chosen are Joseph Haydn, with particular attention to his early symphonies; Dante of the Divine Comedy, with concentration on the transitional cantos […]
Beethoven
Reflections on the Final Piano Sonatas of Franz Schubert
It is said the last three piano sonatas of Schubert are suffused with premonitions of his death. It may be so, but the contemplation is often sweet, as if Schubert cannot help being so in his music and, thus, so as well in his preparations for death. They are piano sonata 19 in C minor, […]