Beethoven - His Spiritual Development. J. W. N. Sullivan

• Тип: Текст
• Автор: J. W. N. Sullivan
• Издательство: Ingram(2020)
• ISBN: 9781446545942
• Язык: Английский

• Жанры: Биографии и мемуары, Спиритизм / пророчества / предсказания, Музыка

First published in 1927, J. W. N. Sullivan's “Beethoven – His Spiritual Development” explores the subject of Beethoven's spirituality, which the author believes he expressed through his greatest musical compositions. Contents include: “Art and Reality”, “Music as Isolated”, “Music as Expression”, “Beethoven’s Characteristics”, “The Morality of Power”, “The Mind of Beethoven”, “The Hero”, “The End of a Period”, “Love and Money”, “The Hammerclavier Sonata”, “God the Companion”, etc. A fascinating study of Beethoven's work not to be missed by fans of classical music. John William Navin Sullivan (1886–1937) was a popular literary journalist and science writer who wrote some of the first accounts of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity for the laymen. Sullivan was acquainted with a number of important writers in 1920s London including T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, and Aleister Crowley. Read & Co. Books is republishing this classic work now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.