Judge Dennis Davis
Beethoven: The Revolutionary 9th
Summary
Judge Dennis Davis discusses the significance and magnitude of Beethoven’s 7th and 9th symphonies.
Judge Dennis Davis
Dennis Davis is a judge of the High Court of South Africa and judge president of the Competition Appeals Court of South Africa. He has held professorial appointments at the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, as well as numerous visiting appointments at Cambridge, Harvard, New York University, and others. He has authored eleven books, including Lawfare: Judging Politics in South Africa.
Can we? I think the music can stand on its own, Ron, which is what I was trying to argue but I suspect we all have our own interpretations. My own view about it is that, let’s leave aside some of the history. I mean, Beethoven can’t be blamed for the fact, you know, that Goebbels and these murderers arrived to listen to it. But I mean it does just, as it were, complicate the history.