Utopische Visionen und visionäre Kunst

"This book explores cultural and political conditions in the wake of French Revolution and Napoleonic upheavels, reassessing the impact of aesthetic currents linked to Kant, Goethe, and Schiller among others on artworks of the early nineteenth century and beyond, and particulary on Beethoven's music. Fresh research on Beethoven's manuscripts has illuminated his working methods and aesthetic priorities. the composer's wide-ranging interest in mythology, non-linear temporality and philosophical notions of the unlimited invites attention. Beethoven's commitment to Schillerian idealism and the aesthetics of the sublime stands in contrast to his disenchantment with the politics of absolutism and the repressive Metterich regime in Vienna."--Page 7.