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Author : Tilman Skowroneck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521119597
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 : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015029245803
"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 : John Suchet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : David Dutkanicz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171678
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 : David Dutkanicz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171494
Specially arranged and simplified, these popular melodies include Für Elise, Ode to Joy, the opening of the "Moonlight" Sonata, and more. Includes a free MP3 download for each piece.
Author : Jan Marisse Huizing
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300251609
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 : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300196139
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 : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486435701
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 Clubbe
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : David Dutkanicz
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486849034
Specially arranged and simplified, this updated and expanded collection of Beethoven works for beginner pianists will delight students and teachers alike. They include such popular melodies as “Für Elise,” “Ode to Joy,” and the opening of the "Moonlight Sonata,” along with excerpts from many other sonatas and highlights from the symphonies. Includes MP3 downloads for every piece.
Author : Boston Music Company
Publisher : Boston Music Company
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781787590649
The music of Ludwig Van Beethoven has been required repertoire for every self-respecting pianist for over a century - now here's your chance to get your hands around those timeless melodies at an early stage. These simple arrangements have been carefully devised to be accessible to the early performer, and will help to build confidence and fluency through a variety of melodic and technical challenges. These grand and powerful pieces have delighted and captivated audiences since the early nineteenth century, and represent a wonderfully satisfying addition to your repertoire. Songlist: - Country Waltz (Landler) - Minuet In G Major - Ode To Joy (Symphony No.9) - German Dance In G Major - Bagatelle In G Minor Op.119 No.1 - Bagatelle In C Minor Op.119 No.5 - Bagatelle In A Minor Op.119. No.9 - Adagio Cantabile (Sonata In C Minor 'Pathetique' Op.13) - Adagio Sostenuto (Sonata In C Sharp Minor 'Moonlight' Op.27 No.2) - Ecossaise In E-flat Major - Ecossaise In G Major - First Movement Themes (Piano Concerto No.3 In G Op.37) - Für Elise (Theme) - German Dance in D Major - Sonatina In G Major (First Movement)
Author : Ludwig Van Beethoven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781406819762
Beethoven's own words, edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel
Author : Leon Plantinga
Publisher : Simply Charly
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781943657650
“This is an elegant, delightful, concise and richly informative introduction to Beethoven, the man and his music, written by a distinguished scholar whose breadth of learning and measured judgment are present on every page.” —Leon Botstein, music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and president of Bard College Born in Bonn, Germany, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) showed musical talent from an early age and was first taught by his musician father, Johann, an alcoholic who often beat his son. At the age of 21, Beethoven moved to Vienna, where he studied with composer Joseph Haydn, and quickly became renowned as a pianist and conductor, as well as a composer. He continued to perform until 1811 when increasing deafness made it impossible, but until his death in 1827, he continued to create timeless works, including such masterpieces as the Ninth Symphony and the late string quartets. Plagued by illness and repeatedly thwarted in love, Beethoven rarely achieved personal happiness; yet he transcended the many setbacks and disappointments in his life to produce some of the greatest music ever written, which has come to be identified with the indomitableness of the human spirit. In Simply Beethoven, Professor Leon Plantinga offers the lay reader a fascinating account of Beethoven’s life and music in its singular historical context, a time that saw the upheaval of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic conquests, as well as the rise of the European middle class. It was in this milieu that Beethoven composed the groundbreaking, highly individual works that changed the course of music and have continued to inspire and delight listeners for more than two centuries. For anyone who is interested in knowing more about the extraordinary music that has become an integral part of Western culture, as well as the troubled genius who created it, Simply Beethoven is a perfect introduction to the man and his work.
Author : Franz Kullak,Anton Kuerti
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486499680
Originally written as an introduction to a critical edition of Beethoven's piano concertos, this informative performance guide provides general rules and features more than 100 annotated and analyzed musical examples.
Author : William S. Newman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,8 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