Chapters:
00:00 Opening
00:29 First steps: context of Beethoven's realization
02:05 Beethoven's secret illness
03:00 warning about biographies & the such is the case of studying Beethoven
04:45 SEQUENCE 1
05:43 introduction to the ambiguity of feeling life
06:19 fifty shades of deaf
06:59 Docteur Marage's insight
08:40 getting into the rabbit hole
10:35 seeing ambiguous signs and discrepancies between the particular and the general
12:09 Classical tragedies and where to find them
16:05 abstraction from meaning
20:24 composing from heterogeny
23:57 the air of another planet: new clarity
26:08 the tempo paradox - craving and dissatisfaction
27:00 Con Brio, and Kolisch
35:25 premonition 1
36:00 composing abstractly from hierarchy in pace, harmony
38:10 why writing isn't a harmless choice
38:50 a love letter to the Quartetto Serioso and the 1810-14 years
44:17 SEQUENCE 2 (with Henri Michaux)
46:07 waking up
46:45 some technicalities of expression and improvisation at the time
49:31 G. Steiner 1
55:23 unknown knowns and known unknowns: birth of science and freedom
57:49 blind AND deaf, not mute
58:43 Deleuze gets a slice, too
1:00:56 What's, like, Time, dude?
1:02:16 parenthesis: grinding the ground
1:05:55 G. Steiner 2
1:12:05 Beethoven's arrows, lines, and staves
1:17:15 on the shoulders of giants: do they still walk?
1:20:33 metaphor of light in Beethoven's music
1:21:19 Slow movements and the Cavatina
1:24:15 Who or what did Beethoven (do)?
1:27:45 trying to figure out the rabbit's hole
1:29:30 summoning Boulez
1:30:35 B's Holy Mountain
1:32:19 Finnegan wakes
1:33:03 the Paradox of speed and performance
1:36:40 Does Beethoven go on or go out?
1:40:00 premonition 2: sublimation, resilience, and abstraction (with op.135)
1:42:41 a final warning and a further "envoi" made out of day-dreaming
1:43:44 The Parabole of Aprilus Fischer (after F. Busoni)
1:50:46 closing credits