Grand sonata Piano forte and Violoncello Op 69

Museokokoelma: 005A.

Grand sonata Piano forte and Violoncello No 1 Op102

Museokokoelma: 005.

Grand sonata Piano forte and Violoncello No 2 Op 102

Museokokoelma: 005.

Gavotte

Soitinnus: piano.

The grammar of psychosis

This thesis is concerned with the philosophical grammar of certain psychiatric concepts, which play a central role in delineating the field of psychiatric work. The concepts studied are ‘psychosis’, ‘delusion’, ‘person’, ‘understanding’ and ‘incomprehensibility’. The purpose of this conceptual analysis is to provide a more perspicuous view of the logic of these concepts, how psychiatric work is constituted in relation to them, and what this tells us about the relationships between the conceptual and the empirical in psychiatric concepts. The method used in the thesis is indebted primarily to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophy, where we are urged to look at language uses in relation to practices in order to obtain a clearer overview of practices of interest; this will enable us to resolve the conceptual problems related to these practices. This questioning takes as its starting point the concept of psychosis, a central psychiatric concept during the twentieth century. The conceptual analysis of ‘psychosis’ shows that the concept is logically dependent on the concepts of ‘understanding’ and ‘person’. Following the lead found in this analysis, the logic of person-concepts in psychiatric discourse is analysed by a detailed textual analysis of a psychiatric journal article. The main finding is the ambiguous uses of ‘person’, enabling a specifically psychiatric form of concern in human affairs. The grammar of ‘understanding’ is then tackled from the opposite end, by exploring the logic of the concept of ‘incomprehensibility’. First, by studying the DSM-IV definition of delusion it is shown that its ambiguities boil down to the question of whether psychiatric practice is better accounted for in terms of the grammar of ‘incorrectness’ or ‘incomprehensibility’. Second, the grammar of ‘incomprehensibility’ is further focused on by introducing the distinction between positive and negative conceptions of ‘incomprehensibility’. The main finding is that this distinction has wide-ranging implications for our understanding of psychiatric concepts. Finally, some of the findings gained in these studies are ‘put into practice’ in studying the more practical question of the conceptual and ethical problems associated with the concept of ‘prodromal symptom of schizophrenia’ and the agenda of early detection and intervention in schizophrenia more generally.

Pathétique Sonata : a study of musical aspects in subjection of aesthetic aims

This study makes an attempt to capture some of the aesthetic ideas prospering in the latter half of the eighteenth century and investigates in what way these are possibly being manifested in different musical aspects in Beethoven's early work, and most specifically in his eight sonata, often referred to as the Pathétique sonata. Beginning the first chapter with an introduction to aesthetic notions in Beethoven's age, the second chapter is mostly concerned with anecdotes regarding the Pathétique sonata. Further the third chapter exhibits possible influences between Cherubini, Beethoven and Wagner, and the last three chapters treat different musical and aesthetic aspects like Beethoven's relation to the C minor tonality, the German Sturm und Drang movement, and finally some parallels that can be found between literature and music.

Das Landgut Monrepos in Finnland. 1804

Ludwig von Nicolay (1737-1820) oli Strassburgissa syntynyt oppinut, Venäjän hovin kotiopettaja, sittemmin salaneuvos ja Venäjän tiedeakatemian presidentti, tieteen ja taiteen suosija. Von Nicolay hankki itselleen Viipurin lähellä sijaitsevan Monrepos'n kartanon vuonna 1788. Yhdessä erään ystävänsä kanssa hän kokosi kartanoonsa merkittävän, 1700-luvun valistuskulttuuria kuvastavan kirjaston, jonka von Nicolayn jälkeläiset lahjoittivat ensimmäisen maailmansodan aikana Helsingin yliopistolle. Kartanon puistosta von Nicolay kehitti maineikkaan, englantilaistyylisen maisemapuiston. Hän kirjoitti puistosta runoteoksen Das Landgut Monrepos 1804 (St Petersburg 1806), jonka hänen poikansa Paul julkaisi uudelleen vuonna 1840. Tähän teokseen liitettiin ranskalaisen taiteilijan Jean Louis Jacottet'n puistoa esittäviä litografioita, jotka pohjautuivat tanskalaisen Christian Ferdinand Christensenin akvarelleihin.

Symphony No. 1 in C major, op. 21

r1952, Carnegie Hall, New York.

Sonata No. 8, in C, K. 296

Soitinnus: Viulu, piano.

Symphony no. 9, op. 125, "Choral"

r1952, Carnegie Hall, New York.

Fidelio

Taltioitu radioiduista esityksistä 10. ja 17.12.1944.

Romance No. 2 in F Major for Violin and Orchestra

Soitinnus: Viulu, ork.