Book Description
This book offers an insight into Beethoven's career, showing in well-documented detail the rise and decline of his powers as a performer.
Author : Tilman Skowroneck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521119596
This book offers an insight into Beethoven's career, showing in well-documented detail the rise and decline of his powers as a performer.
Author : George Barth
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN :
"Rounding out his book, he provides several discerning analyses, including an interpretation of tempo, gesture, and articulation in the Sonata in F major for pianoforte and violoncello, opus 5, no. 1, and a study of tempo flexibility in the Variations on an Original Theme, opus 34." "The Pianist as Orator will provide stimulating reading for music theorists and historians of the classical and Romantic periods, as well as for music teachers and performers - professional and amateur alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486435709
This collection features 25 popular pieces, including the Sonata in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight"); Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 ("Tempest"); 32 Variations in C Minor; more.
Author : John Suchet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0802192912
“An ideal ‘first book’ on Beethoven” from one of the world’s most eminent classical music aficionados (Booklist). Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew’s life, and the excruciating decline of his hearing. This absorbing narrative provides a comprehensive account of a momentous life, as it takes the reader on a journey from the composer’s birth in Bonn to his death in Vienna. Chronicling the landmark events in Beethoven’s career—from his competitive encounters with Mozart to the circumstances surrounding the creation of the well-known “Für Elise” and Moonlight Sonata—this book enhances understanding of the composer’s character, inspiring a deeper appreciation for his work. Beethoven scholarship is constantly evolving, and Suchet draws on the latest research, using rare source material (some of which has never before been published in English) to paint a complete and vivid portrait of the legendary prodigy. “A gripping and thought-provoking read.” —Howard Shelley, pianist and conductor “By exercising a genuine authority in identifying how Beethoven, the man, manifests himself in our appreciation of the music, Suchet brings an incisive freshness to an extraordinary life.” —Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music
Author : Jan Marisse Huizing
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300251602
A comprehensive and immersive survey of thirty-five Beethoven piano sonatas Beethoven's piano sonatas are among the iconic cornerstones of the classical music repertoire. Jan Marisse Huizing offers an in-depth study of the sonatas using available autographs, first editions, recordings, and nearly three hundred musical examples. Digging into the historical background and historical performance practice, the book provides illuminating detail on Beethoven's pianism as well as his characteristics of notation, form and content, "types of touch," articulation, beaming, pedal indications, character, rubato, meter, metric constructions, tempo, and metronome marks. Packed with anecdotes, quotations, and considerable new information, the book will inspire all involved with these masterworks, playing a fortepiano or modern Grand, giving the sense of the composer sitting beside them as he translates his inspiration and ideas into his notation.
Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 030019613X
Beethoven’s piano sonatas form one of the most important collections of works in the whole history of music. Spanning several decades of his life as a composer, the sonatas soon came to be seen as the first body of substantial serious works for piano suited to performance in large concert halls seating hundreds of people. In this comprehensive and authoritative guide, Charles Rosen places the works in context and provides an understanding of the formal principles involved in interpreting and performing this unique repertoire, covering such aspects as sonata form, phrasing, and tempo, as well as the use of pedal and trills. In the second part of his book, he looks at the sonatas individually, from the earliest works of the 1790s through the sonatas of Beethoven’s youthful popularity of the early 1800s, the subsequent years of mastery, the years of stress (1812†“1817), and the last three sonatas of the 1820s. Composed as much for private music-making as public recital, Beethoven’s sonatas have long formed a bridge between the worlds of the salon and the concert hall. For today’s audience, Rosen has written a guide that brings out the gravity, passion, and humor of these works and will enrich the appreciation of a wide range of readers, whether listeners, amateur musicians, or professional pianists. The book includes a CD of Rosen performing extracts from several of the sonatas, illustrating points made in the text.
Author : William S. Newman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393307191
"'Must' reading for any pianist concerned with Beethoven's music, which is to say almost every pianist alive." --William Rothstein, Musical Times
Author : David Dutkanicz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486171671
These rollicking, easy-to-play ragtime favorites include "Maple Leaf Rag," "The Entertainer," "Tiger Rag," and other melodies by such favorites as Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Eubie Blake. All songs available as downloadable MP3s.
Author : Robert Taub
Publisher : Amadeus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Sonatas (Piano)
ISBN : 9781574671780
Acclaimed pianist Robert Taub offers the insights of a passionate musician who performs all 32 of Beethoven's well-loved piano sonatas in concert worldwide bringing a fresh perspective on Beethoven as the ÊNew York TimesÊ put it. In this book he shares his intimate understanding of these works with listeners and players alike.
Author :
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1476824282
(Piano Solo Sheets). This sheet music features an intermediate-level piano solo arrangement of the beloved Beethoven work.