LEADER 03928nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910975168603321 005 20251116215843.0 010 $a9786611734749 010 $a9781281734747 010 $a1281734748 010 $a9780300135114 010 $a0300135114 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300135114 035 $a(CKB)1000000000473608 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171513 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000224778 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11174373 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224778 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10210359 035 $a(PQKB)11078686 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165604 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420346 035 $a(DE-B1597)485038 035 $a(OCoLC)1013955138 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300135114 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420346 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210229 035 $a(OCoLC)923592419 035 $a(Perlego)1089390 035 $z(OCoLC)1013955138 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000473608 100 $a20010202d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe possessor and the possessed $eHandel, Mozart, Beethoven, and the idea of musical genius /$fPeter Kivy 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 287 p.) )$cill., ports 225 1 $aYale series in the philosophy and theory of art 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a9780300087581 311 0 $a0300087586 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-275) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tI. Time out of Mind --$tII. Greatness of Mind --$tIII. Breaking the Rule --$tIV. The Saxon or the Devil --$tV. The Genius and the Child --$tVI. The Little Man from Salzburg --$tVII. Giving the Rule --$tVIII. An Unlicked Bear --$tIX. Mozart's Second Childhood --$tX. Odd Men Out --$tXI. Beethoven Again --$tXII. Gendering Genius --$tXIII. Reconstructing Genius --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don't have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is suddenly possessed, as if some outside force flows through him at the moment of creation. In other cases genius seems best explained as a natural gift. The artist is the possessor of an extra talent that enables the production of masterpiece after masterpiece. This book explores the concept of artistic genius and how it came to be symbolized by three great composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. Peter Kivy, a leading thinker in musical aesthetics, delineates the two concepts of genius that were already well formed in the ancient world. Kivy then develops the argument that these concepts have alternately held sway in Western thought since the beginning of the eighteenth century. He explores why this pendulum swing from the concept of the possessor to the concept of the possessed has occurred and how the concepts were given philosophical reformulations as views toward Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven as geniuses changed in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. 410 0$aYale series in the philosophy and theory of art. 606 $aGenius$xHistory 606 $aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)$xHistory 606 $aComposers 615 0$aGenius$xHistory. 615 0$aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.)$xHistory. 615 0$aComposers. 676 $a781/.1 700 $aKivy$b Peter$0598495 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910975168603321 996 $aThe possessor and the possessed$94356757 997 $aUNINA