Beethoven by Maynard Solomon

Author:Maynard Solomon [Solomon, Maynard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Music Sales
Published: 2012-03-08T03:00:00+00:00

Perhaps it was a festal quality that the nineteenth-century critics sensed in the Seventh Symphony, one that is present in the Eighth, too, for the latter is an offshoot from the same creative impulse. In Ernest Newman’s words, it “takes the overspill of the mighty Seventh,” voicing, like its companion, “a mood of joyous acceptance of life and the world.”63 Wagner, too, saw the psychological similarity, and the festal character, of the two symphonies: “Their effect upon the listener is precisely that of emancipation from all guilt, just as the aftereffect is the feeling of Paradise forfeited, with which we return to the phenomenal world.”64

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