Beethoven Going Blank

Before joining Hong Kong University as Head of the School of Humanities, Daniel K. L. Chua, was a fellow and the director of studies at St John’s College, Cambridge, and later professor of music theory and analysis at King’s College London. He was a Henry Fellow at Harvard and is the recipient of the 2004 Royal Musical Association’s Dent Medal. He has written widely on music, from Monteverdi to Stravinsky; his publications include The “Galitzin” Quartets of Beethoven (Princeton, 1994), Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge, 1999), “Rioting With Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the Rite of Spring” (2007), “Beethoven’s Other Humanism” (2009), and “Listening to the Self: The Shawshank Redemption and the Technology of Music” (2011).