The art and pop music are often divided on the basis of popularity. Beethoven's music was played and to this day still played for music elite but it is popular among general the public as well. Beethoven unexpectedly became the fashionable composer. The noisy short-lived glory was received by him with the piece «Battle at Vittoria". This unexpected success has played an important role in the revival of interest to Beethoven's "Fidelio" opera. In Vienna this opera was on stage 23 times. It happened because the composer connected in his creativity a refined aesthetics with simplicity of perception.

There is a definition of pop music as music of resistance to authority. In Beethoven's music revolutionary moods of his time are expressed, accordingly it approaches the definition of music of social resistance. Performance of his symphonies found a huge emotional response in the souls of people. Symphonies denied an existing reality and called people to change the life. It is music of heroes and creators of destiny. But in the form and contents it is at the top of classicism, which is by definition music belonging to the establishment.

The Art music is characterized as having a high factor of a modality while the absence of modulations is considered to be one of the distinctive features of pop music. Formal division of the art and pop music on the basis of a modality in Beethoven's creativity is scarcely present. In the Seventh symphony there is A-moll Allegretto with 280 steps ostinato. Expressive laconic modulations only emphasize this ostinato. Riffs or ostinato are a bright attribute of folk music; it is an opportunity to dance together or to march in a step, like in last example with A-minor Allegretto.

The last example is also a good illustration of the artificiality of the division of the music as music for a mind and music for a body. Beethoven's music is full of philosophical ideas, an intellectual force to be spent for the analysis of his works equal to the analysis of Hegel's philosophical treatises; it is music addressed to the person's soul. But many of his serious works are perceived easily by the unprepared listener. It is neither necessary to complete a musical Academy course nor to be aristocrat to understand what the composer wanted to express in the Ninth symphony or the Moonlight sonata. (1)

As a whole to divide the creativity of such composers as Beethoven into the art and pop music isn't possible. Attempts to describe music by one particular category reflects only a belonging of authors to a certain social group and criteria on which these attempts are made - the socialized point of view to the art as a whole. This point of view tries not to realize interrelation between substantial and mental, unity of soul and body. A logical consequence of this shows the complete ignorance to the role of the personality in the art and life.

With people such as Beethoven on a historical stage there is a new hero - the whole person of art who has been restricting aristocrats and the political elite by uniting people spiritually and forming public opinion. After Beethoven, a stream of romantic writers and composers has appeared. Their spiritual purpose was to consolidate soul and body and as a consequence to consolidate people in a society, to erase borders of social prejudices. The old ruling elite governed by deceit, their principle - divide and dominate.

Division of art into the art and pop has appeared in twentieth century on the basis of philosophical-historical concepts of a "mass society ".(3)
Using this phraseology the political elite still enables people to deceive themselves, dividing music into pop and art. People console themselves at the sensation of superiority and the illusion of a free choice.

Possible objections

People themselves in the democratic way choose what to listen, eat and drink.
 
Developing this logic, it is possible to assume what the supporter of this point of view will say:

The person always grows in some environment, so recognized, mediated music is necessary for a comfortable high-grade life. The private world of the person obtains stability by being in an environment of pop music, finding in it his own confirmation. This way the stability inside the person and society is created. People are pleased and is this not the ideal thing? (2)
              And the heroism in music comprises a necessity to think and feel that carries destructive tendencies. Is it not better for a society to limit the influence of this music to people? (1)

In conclusion it is possible to say that the unwillingness to leave authority seems to be the main reason that division of music into the art and pop occurs.

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