Ludwig Van Beethoven and Classical Music
Words: 1342 Pages: 4 1698Until it became necessary to venerate and glorify the works of renown composers from the nineteenth century, such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Joseph Haydn, the term “classical music” had neither been utilized nor exploited. Upon the transformation of the concert hall into a musical museum, J Peter Burkholder argues that the only appropriate works to be performed were museum pieces. As a result, the musical canon emerged; an established tradition that designated a list of renown composers and their […]
