Author: Alberto Vizcarra Ozuna
The title of the delivery may seem incoherent, but the geniuses of humanity have always tried to embrace everything human; and artistic depth Ludwig van Beethovenachieved this in an exceptional way. The moral bank of contributions made by Beethoven in the search for happiness and world peace is inexhaustible, and one of those who best knows this possibility is pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim.
Barenboim, born in Argentina (1942) of Jewish descent, began playing music as a child. Spent most of his childhood in Israel, where he received his primary and secondary education. Besides the fact that he is Argentine and has Israeli citizenship, accepted Palestinian citizenship. He summarizes his personal fortune as a hidden force for reconciliation: “…Jewish blood runs through my veins and my heart beats for the Palestinian cause.”. Barenboim lives in Germany, where he is the life director of the Berlin State Orchestra.
Daniel Barenboim
His efforts to get Jews and Palestinians to “stop living backwards” and free themselves from hatred fueled by geopolitical interests is a task he has taken on personally and passionately; He seems to live this as a mission. The greatest representative of these efforts to send a message of unity between these conflicting peoples is creation of the “West-Eastern Divan” orchestra. The project he launched together with Palestinian writer Edward W. Said.
In the late nineties, Barenboim and Said called for the creation of an orchestra. consists mainly of young Jews, Palestinians and representatives of other Arab countries. The launch appears to be an experimental project, the scope of which distances itself from the idea that art and music are angelic forms or ivory towers, refracted by social obligations and the risk of being “stained” by political and human conflicts. Barenboim makes this clear: How is it possible that Palestinian and Israeli musicians perform Beethoven and then cannot live on the same soil?
The Israeli government’s brutal and disproportionate response against the Palestinian people following suspicious terrorist attacks Hamas, may render the efforts of Barenboim’s two-decade musical project fruitless. But the reaction of the Jews is mostly violent US based communitywho from there shouts to the Israeli government “don’t do this in the name of the Jewish people” – in addition to meetings between Jews and Muslims within Israel itself, condemning the actions of the government Netanyahu– are signs that Jews and Palestinians can indeed live on the same land.
There is no naivety in Barenboim’s projectacknowledges the flattery of Divan’s description as world orchestrabut points out that peace in the region requires other things: justice for Palestinians and security for Israel. While not forgetting to note that the conflict is being driven and encouraged by powerful interests that are causing chaos because they fear the regional and global consequences of full reconciliation between Jews and Palestinians.
Barenboim Initiative he is inspired by his creative closeness with Beethoven. He studied and performed all the works of the Bonn genius and is currently one of the main teachers on the principle of classical composition. He often argues that Beethoven is the one who brings us closest to the idea that music is something physical, created by the soul; concludes that music is not subject to moral imperatives because “Music does not accept separation or divorce between the objective and the subjective; on the contrary, music allows for the perfect coexistence of everything objective and everything subjective…”
It should be noted that Beethoven taught us to create the highest harmonies among the most contradictory events.. Attributing to music powers that no philosophy could express in words and concepts, while melody can convey through its opposing influences where that “discordant agreement of things” arises. Beethoven cared about his time and posterity. He lived in Europe, devastated by the Napoleonic Wars (1808-1814). Its apotheosis Ninth Symphony He began composing it a few years after the dark episode of these wars and built on it a cathedral of optimism, despite his disappointment that Napoleon became a “mere mortal.” In it, he manages to connect his music with the aesthetic ideal of Friedrich Schiller, expressed in the goals of freedom and fraternity contained in the “Ode to Joy”.
Barenboim says that Beethoven moves away from ornamentality and that he, like few others, a very powerful combination of rigor and energy. It communicates to us the ever-present desire to achieve mutual understanding, freedom and unity. Speaking about the Ninth Symphony, he characterizes it as a work that permeates everything human, that is, emotions that intersect and make understanding impossible. He points out that from the very beginning of the symphony Beethoven introduces an “unstable base tone” that seeks to make the tension associated with instability felt in order to create a growing demand for harmony and stability. Appointment to Joseph Crippsto say that Beethoven leaves earth for heaven.
The choral conclusion of the Ninth Symphony resolves in supreme harmony all the variations and contradictions registered during the four movements of the work, and does so without any suppression of voices or uniformization, rather occurs with unconditional respect for the value of each voice so that their freedom is recognized. understand that they are participating in building unity are presented as an internal value for the Universe and man.
The brutality of war and genocide against the Palestinian people sheds more light on the efforts of individuals like Daniel Barenboim and governments like the Chinawhat from Brazil, Russiacalls UN and the continued and growing international presence of the Schiller Institute, which, under the leadership Helga Zip LaRoucheseeks to strengthen the International Coalition for Peace, which corrects the structural deficiencies of the Western financial system, the continuation of which leads to war.
We will have to admit, as Barenboim does, that in this task it is extremely important an appeal to the concept of man and humanity achieved by Beethoven and Schiller in the Ninth Symphony.
Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, November 9, 2023
Source: Aristegui Noticias
John Cameron is a journalist at The Nation View specializing in world news and current events, particularly in international politics and diplomacy. With expertise in international relations, he covers a range of topics including conflicts, politics and economic trends.
