Beethoven Biographies And Appreciations

Author : Various
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781528790925

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This volume contains a collection of biographical sketches of Beethoven written by various authors. Contents include: “Beethoven, by Maurice Baring”, “Ludwig Van Beethoven, by Elbert Hubbard”, “Ludwig Van Beethoven, by Harriette Brower”, “Beethoven, by George T. Ferris”, “On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven, by Edna St. Vincent Millay”, “Ludwig Van Beethoven, by Kathrine Lois Scobey & Olive Brown Horne”, etc. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven's musical prowess was recognised from an early age, and he soon became famous as a virtuoso pianist and composer. However, after having gone almost completely deaf by 1814, Beethoven ceased public performances and appearances entirely. One of the most celebrated composers in Western history, Beethoven's music remains amongst the most commonly-performed classical music around the world. His most notable compositions include: “Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21”, “Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61” and “Piano Concerto No. 5 in E♭ major, Op. 73”. This brand new volume offers unique insights into the life and mind of this incredible composer and will appeal to those with an interest in classical music.

Author : John Suchet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802192912

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Beethoven by John Suchet Pdf

“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 Swafford
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571312573

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Beethoven by Jan Swafford Pdf

Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year 'Magisterial, warm, and engaging . . . A triumph of scholarship and musical affinity . . . Jan Swafford is to be saluted.' Independent Jan Swafford's biographies of composers Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic music. Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the revolutionary ferment of Enlightenment-era Bonn, where Beethoven grew up and imbibed the ideas that would shape all of his future work. Swafford then tracks his subject to Vienna, capital of European music, where Beethoven built his career in the face of critical incomprehension, crippling ill health, romantic rejection, and 'fate's hammer', his ever-encroaching deafness. At the time of his death he was so widely celebrated that over ten thousand people attended his funeral. This book is a biography of Beethoven the man and musician, not the myth, and throughout, Swafford - himself a composer - offers insightful readings of Beethoven's key works. More than a decade in the making, this will be the standard Beethoven biography for years to come.

Author : David Wyn Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521568781

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The Life of Beethoven by David Wyn Jones Pdf

'My compositions bring me in a good deal ... I state my price and they pay.' Beethoven was an inspired composer but he was also a working musician with sound commercial sense. David Wyn Jones's account of Beethoven the man and composer reveals the life of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history of music, this biography places his work in the context of the musical life of the period. Through an understanding of the changing nature of musical patronage, the private and public concert, the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on culture and society, and the increasing ambition of musical life in the period after the end of the wars, a varied and dynamic picture of Beethoven's musical career emerges.

Author : Anton Schindler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752427370

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Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler

Author : Vincent d' Indy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Composers
ISBN : NYPL:33433075027858

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Beethoven; a Critical Biography by Vincent d' Indy Pdf

Author : Anton Schindler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Composers
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3RV3

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The Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler Pdf

Author : Sam Rogers
Publisher : KidLit-O Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629172415

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What's So Great About Beethoven? by Sam Rogers Pdf

If you ever study music, chances are that you will end up hearing the name “Beethoven” somewhere along the line. The German composer is one of the most famous musicians of all time, and throughout his life he penned absolutely beautiful music that is still popular today. Ludwig van Beethoven wrote music that today is considered part of the classical genre. You may know Ludwig van Beethoven ‘s name, but perhaps you've wondered, "What's so great about him?” This book (part of the “What’s So Great About…”) series, gives kids insight into life, times and career of Ludwig van Beethoven.

Author : Elliott Graeme
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547323693

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Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) by Elliott Graeme Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.)" by Elliott Graeme. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : George Alexander Fischer
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066122072

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Beethoven, a character study by George Alexander Fischer Pdf

"Beethoven, a character study: Together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven" by George Alexander Fischer Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music. Though the other German composer, Wagner, never got a chance to meet Beethoven, he owed much of his success to his predecessor.

Author : Jan Caeyers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520390218

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Beethoven, A Life by Jan Caeyers Pdf

"This new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven offers connoisseurs and newcomers alike an unparalleled story of the composer's life and works, written by a renowned conductor and scholar of Beethoven's music. With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn, Jan Caeyers expertly weaves together a deeply human and complex picture of Beethoven-his troubled youth, his unpredictable mood swings, his desires, relationships, and conflicts with family and friends, the mysteries surrounding his affair with the 'immortal beloved, ' and the dramatic tale of his deafness. Caeyers also offers new insights into Beethoven's music, showing how it transformed from the work of a skilled craftsman to that of a consummate artist. Demonstrating an impressive command of the vast scholarship on this iconic composer, Caeyers brings Beethoven's world alive with elegant prose, memorable musical descriptions, and a vivid depiction of Bonn and Vienna, where Beethoven produced and performed his works. Caeyers explores how Beethoven's career was impacted by the historical and philosophical shifts taking place in the music world and how, in turn, his trajectory changed the music industry. Equal parts an absorbing cultural history and a lively biography, Beethoven, A Life reveals a complex portrait of the musical genius that defined a style of music and went on to become one of the great pillars of Western art music"--

Author : Heribert Rau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Musical fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015064452272

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Beethoven: a Biographical Romance by Heribert Rau Pdf

Author : Lewis Lockwood
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393326383

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Beethoven by Lewis Lockwood Pdf

An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” —New York Review of Books. This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on his music. "The result is that rarest of achievements, a profoundly humane work of scholarship that will—or at least should—appeal to specialists and generalists in equal measure" (Terry Teachout, Commentary). Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. "Lewis Lockwood has written a biography of Beethoven in which the hours that Beethoven spent writing music—that is, his methods of working, his interest in contemporary and past composers, the development of his musical intentions and ideals, his inner musical life, in short—have been properly integrated with the external events of his career. The book is invaluable." —Charles Rosen "Lockwood writes with poetry and clarity—a rare combination. I especially enjoyed the connection that he makes between the works of Beethoven and the social and political context of their creation—we feel closer to Beethoven the man without losing our wonder at his genius." —Emanuel Ax "The magnum opus of an illustrious Beethoven scholar. From now on, we will all turn to Lockwood's Beethoven: The Music and the Life for insight and instruction." —Maynard Solomon "This is truly the Beethoven biography for the intelligent reader. Lewis Lockwood speaks in his preface of writing on Beethoven's works at 'a highly accessible descriptive level.' But he goes beyond that. His discussion of the music, based on a deep knowledge of its context and the composition processes behind it, explains, elucidates, and is not afraid to evaluate; while the biographical chapters, clearly and unfussily written, and taking full account of the newest thinking on Beethoven, align closely with the musical discussion. The result is a deeply perceptive book that comes as close as can be to presenting the man and the music as a unity."—Stanley Sadie, editor, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians "Impressive for both its scholarship and its fresh insights, this landmark work—fully accessible to the interested amateur—immediately takes its place among the essential references on this composer and his music."—Bob Goldfarb, KUSC-FM 91.5 "Lockwood writes like an angel: lucid, enthusiastic, stirring and enlightening. Beethoven has found his ablest interpreter."—Jonathan Keates, The Spectator "There is no better survey of Beethoven's compositions for a wide audience."—Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times Book Review

Author : George Richard Marek
Publisher : Apollo Editions
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0815203314

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Beethoven by George Richard Marek Pdf

Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 1107 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618054749

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Beethoven by Jan Swafford Pdf

The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.