Beethoven’s persistent efforts to find new ways of artistic formation and to open up previously unheard of areas of musical expression set the standards for generations of artists in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But even the most radical innovation in Beethoven’s compositional oeuvre obeys a strict law of freedom: the exception as the rule. Musicologist Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen will explain this in his lecture and demonstrate it using concrete examples of significant stages in Beethoven’s development.
Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen studied at the Free University of Berlin. In 1999 he was appointed Professor of Musicology at the University of Zurich/Switzerland and has been Professor Emeritus since 2018. In his research he deals with the music history of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The focus is on the history of music aesthetics as well as the history of reception and interpretation. Hinrichsen is co-editor of several musicological periodicals and a member of the Academia Europaea and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
2023-09-21 22:02:29
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