Beethoven as a narrative instrumente in the novel of the first half of the 20th century

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Juan José Pastor Comín

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Studies of musical reception tend to focus both on the influence of the music of the past on the compositions that followed them, as well as on the degree of performance and presence in the cultural life of the different presents. There are, however, no studies that analyze in detail how both music and the personal figure of each composer survive in other artistic manifestations that select, amplify, manipulate or appropriate, under the coordinates of their own disciplines, the inherited musical work . This article will delve into how Beethoven and his music were a powerful instrument in the construction of some of the most relevant literary works of the first half of the century through authors such as Romain Rolland, Proust, EM Forster, Virginia Woolf, James Weldon Johnson, Aldous Huxley, Malraux or Thomas Mann, taking into account both its technical, constructive, semantic, social, and, without a doubt, aesthetic use.

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Pastor Comín, J. J. (2020). Beethoven as a narrative instrumente in the novel of the first half of the 20th century. Cuadernos De Investigación Musical, (11), 195–215. https://doi.org/10.18239/invesmusic.2020.11.10
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