Beethoven's Long Shadow

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Across
  1. 1. Before the rise of artists' status in society after the French Revolution, professional musicians of standing were expected to serve the court or the _______.
  2. 6. Like Kant, this Enlightenment philosopher considered instrumental music (music without words) to be of a lower order than other, more rational, Fine Arts (such as poetry or painting).
  3. 7. The rise of the music industry of the 19th century is inextricably linked to the development of this instrument.
  4. 10. Iconic incident in the Beethoven "mythology": The T_________ Incident.
  5. 11. Iconic incident in the Beethoven "mythology":The Heiligenstadt T__________.
Down
  1. 2. This legal innovation would allow musicians to gain independance from historic, "ancien régime" centers of power: c__________.
  2. 3. A central "bourgeois" (or middle-class) ideal: Individuals can become "elites" in society based on their talent and hard work (rather than birth into a noble family) ; an ideal Beethoven himself espoused. M_________
  3. 4. Though he was born and raised in Bonn, Germany Beethoven is associated with the second ________ School (along with Mozart, Haydn & Schubert).
  4. 5. Romantic philosophers such as S__________ turned the Enlightenment paradigm on its head, considering music to be THE HIGHEST art precisely because it transcended rational thought.
  5. 8. Josef Danhauser's 1840 painting "Liszt at the Piano" visually stages Beethoven's elevated status, the inversion of traditional social hierachy, the emotional power of music, and the community of A______.
  6. 9. Iconic incident in the Beethoven "mythology": The Lichnowsky L_________.