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The possessor and the possessed

Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the idea of musical genius

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An edition of The possessor and the possessed (2001)

The possessor and the possessed

Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the idea of musical genius

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"The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is suddenly possessed, as if some outside force flows through him at the moment of creation. In other cases genius seems best explained as a natural gift. The artist is the possessor of an extra talent that enables the production of masterpiece after masterpiece.

This book explores the concept of artistic genius and how it came to be symbolized by three great composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven.".

"Peter Kivy, a leading thinker in musical aesthetics, delineates the two concepts of genius that were already well formed in the ancient world. Combining philosophy and the history of ideas, Kivy then develops the argument that these concepts have alternately held sway in Western thought since the beginning of the eighteenth century.

He explores why this pendulum swing from the concept of the possessor to the concept of the possessed has occurred and how these concepts were given philosophical reformulations as views toward Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven as geniuses changed in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

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287

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The Possessor and the Possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the Idea of Musical Genius
October 1, 2001, Yale University Press
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Cover of: The possessor and the possessed
The possessor and the possessed: Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the idea of musical genius
2001, Yale University Press
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Table of Contents

I. Time out of Mind
II. Greatness of Mind
III. Breaking the Rule
IV. The Saxon or the Devil
V. The Genius and the Child
VI. The Little Man from Salzburg
VII. Giving the Rule
VIII. An Unlicked Bear
IX. Mozart's Second Childhood
X. Odd Men Out
XI. Beethoven Again
XII. Gendering Genius
XIII. Reconstructing Genius.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-275) and index.

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New Haven
Series
Yale series in the philosophy and theory of art, Yale series in the philosophy and theory of art

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Dewey Decimal Class
781/.1
Library of Congress
ML390 .K595 2001

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Pagination
xiv, 287 p. :
Number of pages
287

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24929857M
Internet Archive
possessorpossess00kivy
ISBN 10
0300087586
ISBN 13
9780300087581
LCCN
2001017785
OCLC/WorldCat
45879463

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