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Freedom and the Arts Freedom and the Arts Essays on Music and Literature  ChArles rosen hArvArd University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and london, england 2012 Copyright © 2012 by the President and Fellows of harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United states of America Publication of this book has been supported through the generous provisions of the Maurice and lula Bradley smith Memorial Fund. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data rosen, Charles, 1927– Freedom and the arts : essays on music and literature / Charles rosen.—1st ed. p. cm. includes index. isBn 978-0-674-04752-5 1. Music—history and criticism. 2. literature—history and criticism. i. title. Ml60.r7849 2012 780.9—dc23 2011044591 For Henri Zerner Contents Acknowledgments ix introduction 1 part i. the Weight of society 1 Freedom and Art 7 2 Culture on the Market 15 3 The Future of Music 24 4 The Canon 39 part ii. Mostly Mozart 5 dramatic and tonal logic in Mozart’s operas 51 6 Mozart’s entry into the twentieth Century 64 7 The triumph of Mozart 73 8 drama and Figured Bass in Mozart’s Concertos 79 9 Mozart and Posterity 114 10 structural dissonance and the Classical sonata 121 11 tradition without Convention 135 part iii. Centenaries 12 Felix Mendelssohn at 200: Prodigy without Peer 171 13 happy Birthday, elliott Carter! 178 14 Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary 187 15 robert schumann, a vision of the Future 193 part iv. long Perspectives 16 The new Grove’s dictionary returns 203 17 Western Music: The view from California 210 Postscript: Modernism and the Cold War 240 Contents  viii 18 Theodor Adorno: Criticism as Cultural nostalgia 248 19 resuscitating opera: Alessandro scarlatti 264 20 operatic Paradoxes: The ridiculous and sublime 278 21 lost Chords and the Golden Age of Pianism 290 part v. Classical Modernism: Past and Present 22 Montaigne: Philosophy as Process 303 23 la Fontaine: The ethical Power of style 319 24 The Anatomy lesson: Melancholy and the invention of Boredom 339 25 Mallarmé and the transfiguration of Poetry 353 26 hofmannsthal and radical Modernism 368 27 The Private obsessions of Wystan Auden 383 part vi. Final Cadence, Unresolved 28 old Wisdom and newfangled Theory: two one-Way streets to disaster 397 Credits 423 index of names and Works 425 Acknowledgments Above all, i should like to express my gratitude for robert silvers’s sympathetic and inspiring efforts to make sure that the many reviews of mine he edited were always accessible to readers without a specialized knowl- edge of the matters at hand. i have written two new and somewhat technical essays for this volume, not so much to supplement as to correct what i have written before, and i must thank Professor robert Marshall of Brandeis University and Professor scott Burnham of Princeton University for their really valuable correc tions and their encouragement. i owe a great debt to Professor Kristina Muxfeldt of the University of indiana at Bloomington for helping me put the book together and get the music examples in good order, saving me many hours of labor. i am deeply sensible of the understanding shown by the harvard University Press, above all the kindness and tact of lindsay Waters through all the changes of plan, and grateful for the help and patience of shanshan Wang.

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