ผู้เขียน: Kinderman William Kinderman

We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics in his oeuvre, elucidating how the …

"We do not understand music–it understands us." This aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno expresses the quandary and the fascination many listeners have felt in approaching Beethoven’s late quart …

Great music arouses wonder: how did the composer create such an original work of art? What was the artist’s inspiration, and how did that idea become a reality? Cultural products inevitably arise fro …