Klarinet Archive - Posting 000141.txt from 2008/12

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Beethoven Nine and Meaning
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:15:43 -0500

I'm working from memory here with no time to check my aging brain
cell death, but I believe the essay you refer to was written by
Sartre, and it referred to Beethoven 7.

DN

On Dec 29, 2008, at 2:10 AM, Alexander Brash wrote:

> I'm looking for an article and my googling skills have failed. I
> remember once reading what I thought was rather famous argument
> about where meaning lies in a musical work. Someone (I think it was
> Adorno?) had a thought experiment where he argued that Beethoven 9
> didn't actually exist, since you couldn't point to where it existed
> (not in the score, a single performance, etc), along with some
> other ramifications. Does anyone know what I'm referring to? It's
> driving me bonkers. I might have read it in the Stravinsky Poetics
> of Music, but he was definitely quoting someone else...
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