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Author : William S. Newman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Music
ISBN : 0393307190
"'Must' reading for any pianist concerned with Beethoven's music, which is to say almost every pianist alive." --William Rothstein, Musical Times
Author : Frederick W. Skinner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253063076
How did Ludwig van Beethoven help overthrow a tsarist regime? With the establishment of the Russian Musical Society and its affiliated branches throughout the empire, Beethoven's music reached substantially larger audiences at a time of increasing political instability. In addition, leading music critics of the regime began hearing Beethoven's dramatic works as nothing less than a call to revolution. Beethoven in Russia deftly explores the interface between music and politics in Russia by examining the reception of Beethoven's works from the late 18th century to the present. In part 1, Frederick W. Skinner's clear and sweeping review examines the role of Beethoven's more dramatic works in the revolutionary struggle that culminated in the Revolution of 1917. In part 2, Skinner reveals how this same power was again harnessed to promote Stalin's campaign of rapid industrialization. The appropriation of Beethoven and his music to serve the interests of the state remained the hallmark of Soviet Beethoven reception until the end of communist rule. With interdisciplinary appeal in the areas of history, music, literature, and political thought, Beethoven in Russia shows how Beethoven's music served as a call to action for citizens and weaponized state propaganda in the great political struggles that shaped modern Russian history.
Author : John Suchet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780802192912
“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 : John Clubbe
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393242560
A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven’s political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions. Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafés and at the university. Moving to Vienna at the age of twenty-one to study with Haydn, he gained renown as a brilliant pianist and innovative composer. In that conservative city, capital of the Hapsburg empire, authorities were ever watchful to curtail and punish overt displays of radical political views. Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the meteoric rise of Napoleon. As Napoleon had made strides to liberate Europe from aristocratic oppression, so Beethoven desired to liberate humankind through music. He went beyond the musical forms of Haydn and Mozart, notably in the Eroica Symphony and his opera Fidelio, both inspired by the French Revolution and Napoleon. John Clubbe illuminates Beethoven as a lifelong revolutionary through his compositions, portraits, and writings, and by setting him alongside major cultural figures of the time—among them Schiller, Goethe, Byron, Chateaubriand, and Goya.
Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783271511
A complete new edition of Beethoven's conversation books, now translated into English in their entirety for the first time, covering a period associated with the revolutionary style of what we call late Beethoven.
Author : Anton Schindler,Donald W. MacArdle
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0486292320
Intimate biography by Beethoven's pupil and secretary recalls composer's personality, contemporaries, deafness, irascible behavior, etc. Extensively annotated by Beethoven scholar Donald MacArdle. Revised 3rd edition. Editor's Notes. Introduction. Includes 7 illustrations.
Author : TED. TED ALBRECHT
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783276219
A complete new edition of Beethoven's conversation books, in 12 volumes, now translated into English in their entirety for the first time. Covering a period associated with the revolutionary style of what we call late Beethoven, these lively and compelling conversations are now finally accessible in English for the scholar and Beethoven-lover.
Author : Anton Schindler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Composers
ISBN : HARVARD:HN3RV3
Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1967-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691027188
Although some portions of Thayer's original text have been deleted because recent Beethoven research has proved them inaccurate, "the majority of the text used consists of the coordinated treatment of Thayer's notes and manuscript by these three editors [H. Deiters, H. Riemann, and H. Krehbiel]" with additions and corrections by the present editor.
Author : Little Genius Books
Publisher : Little Genius Books
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1953344305
The Classical Music Sound Book series introduces the youngest music lovers to famous composers with whimsical illustrations and 6 magical sound buttons to experience the joy of their music! Babies and toddlers will love discovering the wonderful world of classical music with this series that features a sound button on every spread! A caterpillar plays Piano Sonata No. 11 while an elephant listens on. Three pugs accompany a wiener dog playing Symphony No. 40. These are just two of the wonderfully silly spreads in this homage to Mozart that’s perfect for mini music lovers! Children will giggle over the silly illustrations as well as love pushing the sound buttons over and over. What a great way to learn about Mozart! A perfect gift for baby showers!
Author : Tia DeNora
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520920156
In this provocative account Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. She explores the changing musical world of late eighteenth-century Vienna and follows the activities of the small circle of aristocratic patrons who paved the way for the composer's success. DeNora reconstructs the development of Beethoven's reputation as she recreates Vienna's robust musical scene through contemporary accounts, letters, magazines, and myths—a colorful picture of changing times. She explores the ways Beethoven was seen by his contemporaries and the image crafted by his supporters. Comparing Beethoven to contemporary rivals now largely forgotten, DeNora reveals a figure musically innovative and complex, as well as a keen self-promoter who adroitly managed his own celebrity. DeNora contends that the recognition Beethoven received was as much a social achievement as it was the result of his personal gifts. In contemplating the political and social implications of culture, DeNora casts many aspects of Beethoven's biography in a new and different light, enriching our understanding of his success as a performer and composer.
Author : Barry Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190463496
The connections between a great artist's life and work are subtle, complex, and often highly revealing. In the case of Beethoven, however, the standard approach has been to treat his life and his art separately. Now, Barry Cooper's new volume incorporates the latest international research on many aspects of the composer's life and work and presents these in a truly integrated narrative. Cooper employs a strictly chronological approach that enables each work to be seen against the musical and biographical background from which it emerged. The result is a much closer confluence of life and work than is usually achieved, for two reasons. First, composition was Beethoven's central preoccupation for most of his life: "I live entirely in my music," he once wrote. Second, recent study of his many musical sketches has enabled a much clearer picture of his everyday compositional activity than was previously possible, leading to rich new insights into the interaction between his life and music. This volume concentrates on Beethoven's artistic achievements both by examining the origins of his works and by expert commentary on some of their most striking and original features. It also reexamines virtually all the evidence--from fictitious anecdotes right down to the translations of individual German words--to avoid recycling old errors. And it offers numerous new details derived from sketch studies and a new edition of Beethoven's correspondence. Offering a wealth of fresh conclusions and intertwining life and work in illuminating ways, Beethoven will establish itself as the reference on one of the world's greatest composers.
Author : Melanie Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1989724051
Fifteen-year-old Nate is mugged by someone in a Beethoven costume in front of an expensive new building. His luck turns when the owner of the building offers him a gig playing piano in the courtyard. But Nate can't ignore the impulse to track down the thieving Beethoven.
Author : Paul Griffiths
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681375809
Shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize Based on the German composer's own correspondence, this inventive, counterfactual work of historical fiction imagines Beethoven traveling to America to write an oratorio based on the Book of Job. It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write an oratorio. The premise of Paul Griffiths’s ingenious novel is that Beethoven accepted the commission and traveled to the United States to oversee its first performance. Griffiths grants the composer a few extra years of life and, starting with his voyage across the Atlantic and entry into Boston Harbor, chronicles his adventures and misadventures in a new world in which, great man though he is, he finds himself a new man. Relying entirely on historically attested possibilities to develop the plot, Griffiths shows Beethoven learning a form of sign language, struggling to rein in the uncertain inspiration of Reverend Ballou (his designated librettist), and finding a kindred spirit in the widowed Mrs. Hill, all the while keeping his hosts guessing as to whether he will come through with his promised composition. (And just what, the reader also wonders, will this new piece by Beethoven turn out to be?) The book that emerges is an improvisation, as virtuosic as it is delicate, on a historical theme.
Author : Carl Dahlhaus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198163991
Many books have been written about Beethoven. But it is rare to find one that seeks an alternative between the fragmentation found in most specialized studies and the superficial overview typical of popular biography. In this volume, Carl Dahlhaus, one of the century's leading musicologists, combines interpretations of individual works that focus on issues of composition and musical history, with excursions into the musical aesthetics of the period around 1800; an age that was not only a "classical" period in the history of the arts but also one in that aesthetics carved itself a place in the center of philosophical attention. The theme of the book is the reconstruction of Beethoven's "musical thinking" from the evidence in the works themselves and their context in the history of ideas.