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“Datus” & “Factus”

“Datus” & “Factus”. Interpretating Beethoven’s Sketches of the 9th. Data and Facts. Etymology Etymology of Etymology: from Greek etymos “true,” “original” ( Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary ) Historical facts are what you make sense of (interpret) historical data.

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“Datus” & “Factus”

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  1. “Datus” & “Factus” Interpretating Beethoven’s Sketches of the 9th

  2. Data and Facts • Etymology • Etymology of Etymology: from Greek etymos “true,” “original” (Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary) • Historical facts are what you make sense of (interpret) historical data. • The writing of “History” is writing history.

  3. A Tale of Two Symphonies • Advocate 1: Friedrich Rochlitz 1827, editor of the Allgemeine Musikzeitung • Beethoven told him in Baden 1822 about writing 2 symphonies and an oratorio at the same time • Problems: • Beethoven in Döbling at that time • Rochlitz also published an invented letter of Mozart in 1815

  4. Advocate 2: Gustav Nottebohm 1876 • 1st scholar of Beethoven’s sketches • one with intrumental finale • Artaria 201, 111: “… das 4te Stück… recht fugirt” • Autograph 8, Bundle 2, fol. 8r: “Finale instromentale” • one with choral “Freude” • Artaria 201, 119: “Sinfonie allemand”

  5. Artaria 201, 111

  6. Autograph 8/2, fol. 8r Op. 132, IV

  7. Artaria 201, 119

  8. Problems • misread: Artaria 201, 111 • misorder: Autograph 8/2, fol. 8r • Landsberg 8/1, 12 • misinterpretation: Artaria 201, 119: “Sinfonie allemand”

  9. Advocate 3: Alexander Thayer 1866–79 • 1st scholarly biographer of Beethoven • Beethoven’s working habit of writing symphonies in pairs (eg. 7th and 8th) • Schiller text in German not suitable for London • Problems • speculation without documenation

  10. Facit • sources: against the tide • reception studies as mirror • myth of master and masterwork • Mozart & Beethoven • myth of Gesamtkunstwerk or absolute music • Wagner & Brahms • “dare” and “facere” • each for one’s own age

  11. Modernist Motto • Secession building, Vienna, 1897–98

  12. Der Zeit ihre Kunst: Der Kunst ihre Freiheit(To each age its art: to art, its freedom)

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