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BEETHOVEN. When asked to name the single most influential
composer of the Western world, few would hesitate. And the
specific style that has come to define the nature of Beethoven's
accomplishment is his heroic style, a style to which only a handful of
his works can lay unequivocal claim: two symphonies, two piano sonatas,
several overtures, a piano concerto.1 For nearly two centuries, a
single style of a single composer has epitomized musical vitality, becoming
the paradigm of Western compositional logic and of all the
positive virtues that music can embody for humanity. This conviction
has proved so strong that it no longer acts as an overt part of our musical
consciousness; it is now simply a condition of the way we tend to
engage the musical experience. The values of Beethoven's heroic style
have become the values of music. This book asks how this came to be,
and why this came to be—in short, why this music matters so.
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