Book Description
Written for the general reader, this book reveals how Beethoven's great works reflect both his artistic individuality and the deepest philosophical and political currents of his age.
Author : Lewis Lockwood
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2005-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393326381
Written for the general reader, this book reveals how Beethoven's great works reflect both his artistic individuality and the deepest philosophical and political currents of his age.
Author : Alan Tyson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 1982-09-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521241311
The aim of this series is to present scholarly work on Beethoven, broad in range as well as meticulous in method.
Author : Keith Chapin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 1108595758
Did you know that Beethoven contemplated, however fleetingly, writing more than forty symphonies and that for the Missa solemnis he sought stimulus from a Latin-German dictionary? And what about the underappreciated sociable side of Beethoven's music to set alongside the familiar one of the heroic? Beethoven Studies 4 is a collection of ten chapters that approach the composer and his music from an appealing range of critical standpoints, aesthetic, analytical, biographical, historical and performance. Alongside essays that offer new information on Beethoven's compositional practice and broaden understanding of the music's contemporary and posthumous appeal, there are essays on his interaction with specific environments, Bonn and post-Napoleonic Austria, and vocal and piano performance practice. The volume will appeal to cultural historians and practitioners as well as Beethoven enthusiasts.
Author : Alan Tyson
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Music
ISBN :
The aim of this series is to present scholarly work on Beethoven, broad in range as well as meticulous in method. The contributors have in common a special interest in the sources for Beethoven's life and for this creative activity, including original scores, sketchbooks, conversation books, correspondence, and other documentary material.
Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : Barry Cooper
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 1526155672
Manchester Beethoven studies presents ten original chapters by scholars with close ties to the University of Manchester. It throws new light on many aspects of Beethoven’s life and works, with a special emphasis on early or little-known compositions such as his concert aria Erste Liebe, his String Quintet Op. 104 and his folksong settings. Biographical elements are prominent in a wide-ranging reassessment of his religious attitudes and beliefs, while Charles Hallé, founder of the Manchester-based Hallé Orchestra, is revealed to have been a tireless and energetic promoter of Beethoven’s music in the later nineteenth century.
Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Leipzic ; New York : Schuberth and comp.
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Composition (Music)
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Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Leipzic ; New York : Schuberth and comp.
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Composition (Music)
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Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199886946
Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets, looking at compositions from different and original perspectives that show Beethoven's art as a union of sensuous and rational, of expression and structure. In analyses of individual pieces, Kinderman shows that the deepening of Beethoven's musical thought was a continuous process over decades of his life. In this new updated edition, Kinderman gives more attention to the composer's early chamber music, his songs, his opera Fidelio, and to a number of often-neglected works of the composer's later years and fascinating projects left incomplete. A revised view emerges from this of Beethoven's aesthetics and the musical meaning of his works. Rather than the conventional image of a heroic and tormented figure, Kinderman provides a more complex, more fully rounded account of the composer. Although Beethoven's deafness and his other personal crises are addressed, together with this ever-increasing commitment to his art, so too are the lighter aspects of his personality: his humor, his love of puns, his great delight in juxtaposing the exalted and the commonplace.