03779nam 2200673 a 450 991082280050332120240418002354.01-281-73474-897866117347490-300-13511-410.12987/9780300135114(CKB)1000000000473608(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171513(SSID)ssj0000224778(PQKBManifestationID)11174373(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224778(PQKBWorkID)10210359(PQKB)11078686(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165604(MiAaPQ)EBC3420346(DE-B1597)485038(OCoLC)1013955138(DE-B1597)9780300135114(Au-PeEL)EBL3420346(CaPaEBR)ebr10210229(OCoLC)923592419(EXLCZ)99100000000047360820010202d2001 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe possessor and the possessed Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the idea of musical genius /Peter Kivy1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20011 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 287 p.) )ill., portsYale series in the philosophy and theory of artBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-08758-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-275) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --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 --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThe 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. 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 the concepts were given philosophical reformulations as views toward Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven as geniuses changed in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.Yale series in the philosophy and theory of art.GeniusHistoryCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)HistoryComposersGeniusHistory.Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)History.Composers.781/.1Kivy Peter598495MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822800503321The possessor and the possessed3941745UNINA