Sound Mind
Official Substack of Jonathan Biss - Concert pianist and author of Unquiet: My Life with Beethoven
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On Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4
How can one G major chord be so transporting?
It is a question without an answer – certainly not a fully satisfying answer. The way the chord is built is a contributing factor: its highest note is not the “root”, but the third, making it s...
A Pianist and a Law Professor Meet at the Bar …
This is my ‘director’s cut’ version of the NYT Op-Ed article I co-wrote last month with law professor Christopher Serkin.
Written in the 1780s, it both enlightens and confounds. Its brilliance cannot undo the passage of time, but the nearl...
Schubert Is the Best Cure I Know for Loneliness
We live in an age of isolation. Its dangerous effects are becoming ever clearer: online radicalization, increasingly poisonous politics, evidence that more and more people consider themselves functionally friendless. This crisis is particul...
On Schubert's Sonata in B♭ Major, D. 960
It was the beginning of September, 1828, and Schubert was seriously unwell. 31 years old and in the throes of the tertiary stage of syphilis, he left the discomfort of urban Vienna for the discomfort of a tiny, damp and poorly heated room i...
On Schubert's Sonata in A Major, D. 959
What comes between anger and acceptance?
Per Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, first bargaining, then depression. But with apologies to the doctor, when grappling with that greatest of mysteries – the passage from life to death – I look not to the sc...
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