What happens when a young composer, filled with longing and artistic ambition, embarks on a pilgrimage—not to a place, but to a figure, a sound, a force of musical genius?
Richard Wagner’s obsession with Beethoven shaped not only his own music but also his entire philosophy of artistic expression. In this presentation, Prof. Carol Reynolds explores Wagner’s early novelettes, his deep reverence for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and the 19th-century fascination with the sublime—that elusive quality that transforms music into something transcendent.
With select musical excerpts, Carol unravels how Beethoven, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche shaped Wagner’s own musical and spiritual journey, and obsession with capturing the sublime.
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