Eroica - Beethovens Weg
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- Subject according curriculum
- Musical analysis
- Teachers
- Prof. Volkhardt Preuss
- Scope
- Fridays, 9.00-11.30 a.m.
- Room
- BP 11
- Duration
- 1.5 Semesterwochenstunden
- Description
The Eroica is a key work by Beethoven, a turning point. From now on, nothing is as it was. Starting from it, we will work our way towards the late work. What is this "heroic" in the title? Why the funeral march? What role does Prometheus play as the program of the last movement? Beethoven's statements in his conversation books and letters sound like headings for the poetic idea of his work as a whole. Be it that he gives his nephew Karl "to love freedom above all else" as a memento mori, be it that he associates the "starry sky" in the Cavantina from op. 130 and thus builds a bridge to Kant's "moral law": All this helps us on the way to his music and yet is only a "third" of the truth. For the musical rigor of his music as an absolute phenomenon, the construction and consistency of form and technique and - as an antithesis - the fantasy, the wildness, the entropy and conflict-ladenness that constantly threatens this structure are added to this. It is the "intimate feeling" of his melodies and the hymn-like quality of his final movements that heal the wounds and resolve the preceding conflicts. A journey of discovery.
- Literature
will be announced in the seminar
- Credits
- 2 Creditpoints
- Modules
- Musiktheoretisch-/wissenschaftliches Modul 1, Musiktheoretisch-/wissenschaftliches Modul 2, Musiktheoretisches/Musikwissenschaftliches Wahlmodul Instrumental, Wahlmodul freie Wahl (alle Studiengänge)