24 Hours BEETHOVEN - 【BEETHOVEN Talk & Show 1】BEETHOVEN and Romanticism
Time
2024/3/2(Sat) 17:00-18:00
Duration is approximately 60 minutes.
Venue: Concert Hall 3F Lobby
Program
In whispers heard by many, BEETHOVEN is hailed as the "composer traversing from classical to romantic." Yet, what kinship lies between the tumultuous fervor in BEETHOVEN's music and the solemn, focused gaze depicted in his visage and the essence of Romanticism? This petite talk embarks from the twilight of 18th-century German Romanticism and unfolds through the lens of E.T.A. HOFFMANN, a German composer, novelist, and theorist of Romantic opera in the early 19th century. Through HOFFMANN's musical critiques of BEETHOVEN, we shall delve into the enigmatic relationship between BEETHOVEN and the spirit of Romanticism.
Speaker
SHEN Diau-long, Assistant Professor in Musicology at National Tsing Hua University, published a monograph, E.T.A. HOFFMANNS Weg zur Oper–Von der Idee des Romantischen zur Genese der romantischen Oper (2016), and more than ten articles in academic journals in Chinese, English, and German. His recent research focuses on the relationship between musical modernism and the global Cold War. He is the editor of The Musical Anthology of JIANG Wen-ye (2023), Oral History of the Asian Composers League (2023). Over ten years, he has written music reviews in both Chinese and English, bridging the gap between research and society.