Beethoven Variations

Author : Ruth Padel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781473558588

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Beethoven Variations by Ruth Padel Pdf

From the author of the bestselling Darwin: A Life in Poems, Ruth Padel’s new collection follows in the footsteps of one of the world’s greatest composers, Beethoven, and investigates what his life and music might mean to us today Two hundred and fifty years since Beethoven was born, Ruth Padel goes on a personal search for him, retracing his steps through war-torn Europe of the early nineteenth century, delving into his music, letters, diaries and the conversation books he used when deaf, to uncover the man behind the legend. Her quest, exploring the life of one of the most creative artists who ever lived, turns more personal than she expects, taking her into the sources of her own creativity and musicality. From a deeply musical family herself, Padel’s parents met through music, and she grew up playing chamber music on viola – Beethoven’s instrument as a child. Her father’s grandfather, a concert pianist born on the German–Danish border, studied in Leipzig with a friend of Beethoven before immigrating to the UK. The poems in this illuminating biography in verse conjure not only Beethoven’s life and personality, but her own music-making and love both of the European music-making tradition to which her father’s family belongs, and to the continent itself Europe.

Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199711741

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Beethovens Diabelli Variations by William Kinderman Pdf

The Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120, represent Beethovens most extraordinary achievement in the art of variation-writing. In their originality and power of invention, they stand beside other late Beethoven masterpieces such as the Ninth Symphony, the Missa Solemnis, and the last quartets. William Kindermans study of the compositional history of the work includes the first extended investigation and reconstruction of the sketches and drafts, and reveals, contrary to earlier views of its chronology, that it was actually begun in 1819, then put aside, and completed in 1822-3. Kinderman also provides an analytical discussion of the complete work, and he demonstrates how insights derived from a close study of the sketches can illuminate Beethovens compositional ideas and attitudes and contribute substantially to a better understanding of this massive and complex set of variations. The book includes complete transcriptions of the two central documents in the genesis of the Diabelli variations - the reconstructed Wittgenstein Sketchbook and the Paris - Landsberg - Montauban Draft.

Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198161980

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Beethoven's Diabelli Variations by William Kinderman Pdf

This extended study of the compositional origins of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations explores the piece in the context of his other late period works and demonstrates how the composer transforms, parodies, and transcends Diabelli's waltz. Providing insight into his working method, this discussion illuminates the structure of the finished work, and the nature of Beethoven's creative process.

Author : Mark Evan Bonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190054083

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Beethoven by Mark Evan Bonds Pdf

The Scowl -- The Life -- Ideals -- Deafness -- Love -- Money -- Politics -- Composing -- Early-Middle-Late -- The Music -- "Beethoven".

Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198043953

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Beethoven by William Kinderman Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ludwig van Beethoven by Anonim Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Block
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442245464

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Experiencing Beethoven by Geoffrey Block Pdf

The life and music of Beethoven still fascinate classical music lovers, new and old. His many symphonies, sonatas, concertos, string quartets, and his one opera enchant audiences, challenge performers, engage students, and support scholars in their work. In Experiencing Beethoven, music historian Geoffrey Block explores in layman’s terms a highly representative body of about two dozen Beethoven instrumental and vocal works, offering listeners who know him well, or are just discovering him, an opportunity to grasp the breadth and depth of his musical genius. Designed for those unversed in musical terminology or theory, Experiencing Beethoven places the composer’s works within the evolving context of his personal and professional life and social and cultural milieu. Block sheds light on the public and private audiences of Beethoven’s music, from the concerts for the composer’s own financial benefit to the debut of the “Eroica” Symphony at the palace of Prince Lobkowitz to the historic public premiere of his Ninth Symphony. Experiencing Beethoven paints a portrait of the composer’s youth in Bonn, his early triumphs and artistic maturation in Vienna, and—despite the challenges his music posed to his contemporaries— the recognition he received during his lifetime as the most acclaimed composer of the era. Block conveys the range and scope of Beethoven’s achievement, from his heroic style to his lyricism, grappling throughout with the composer’s power to communicate his idealistic musical vision to listeners in both his time and ours. Finally, Experiencing Beethoven explores why Beethoven’s music continues to enjoy an unwavering appeal in an age saturated with a range of musical styles.

Author : Beethoven Forum
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0803242468

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Beethoven Forum by Beethoven Forum Pdf

The opening essay by James Webster, "Beethoven in Vienna, 1792-1802: Anø'Early' Period?", evaluates the critical tradition of dividing Beethoven?s career into three periods?early, middle, and late?and shows both their artificiality andøtheir implications, including a tendency to undervalue early works. J_rgen May?s essay "Beethoven and Prince Karl Lichnowsky," considers Beethoven?s relations with one of the first of his most important patrons. In "Beethoven before 1800: The Mozart Legacy," Lewis Lockwood examines Beethoven?s sketchbooks to describe how Beethoven composed with and against models from Mozart. Glenn Stanley's essay, "The 'wirklich gantz neue Mainer' and the Path to It: Beethoven's Variations for Piano, 1783-1802," surveys Beethoven?s sets of piano variations written in his first decade in Vienna and argues the importance of the variations in Beethoven's progress as a composer. In 'Pathos and the Pathätique," Elaine R. Sisman provides a historical and aesthetic analysis of one of Beethoven?s most popular piano sonatas. The composition of one of Beethoven's most popular violin sonatas, the "Spring" sonata is traced in the sketchbooks by Carl Schachter in "The Sketches of the Sonata for Piano and Violin, Op. 24." Nicholas Marston's "Stylistic Advance, Strategic Retreat: Beethoven's Sketches for the Finale,"øalso pays precise attention to Beethoven's sketches to discover how the composition of the Second Symphony illuminates Beethoven's work on an "underlying idea." In "Hybrid Themes: Toward a Refinement in the Classification of Classical Theme Types,"øWilliam E. Caplin defines "hybrid themes" and shows their variety in Beethoven?s early compositions. William Kinderman concludes the volume with a review article onøKlaus Kropfinger?s Wagner and Beethoven and its study of the "battle for Beethoven" that racked nineteenth-century European music.

Author : Alfred Kanwischer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442230644

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From Bach's Goldberg to Beethoven's Diabelli by Alfred Kanwischer Pdf

In From Bach’s Goldberg to Beethoven’s Diabelli: Influence and Independence, music scholar and noted pianist Alfred Kanwischer takes readers on an extended exploration in which each of the thirty-three pieces making up Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations (Op. 120) is caringly examined and assessed for its ingredients, actions, personality, and influence on the whole. Counterpoint abounds, not only in the fugal variations, which are closely parsed, but throughout the Diabelli, revealing the noticeably baroque character of the technical compositional devices Beethoven employs.

Author : Barry Cooper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317037095

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The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas by Barry Cooper Pdf

Beethoven’s piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio. The sonatas have been the subject of much scholarship, but no single study gives an adequate account of the processes by which these sonatas were composed and published. With source materials such as sketches and correspondence increasingly available, the time is ripe for a close study of the history of these works. Barry Cooper, who in 2007 produced a new edition of all 35 sonatas, including three that are often overlooked, examines each sonata in turn, addressing questions such as: Why were they written? Why did they turn out as they did? How did they come into being and how did they reach their final form? Drawing on the composer’s sketches, autograph scores and early printed editions, as well as contextual material such as correspondence, Cooper explores the links between the notes and symbols found in the musical texts of the sonatas, and the environment that brought them about. The result is a biography not of the composer, but of the works themselves.

Author : Beethoven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798623850157

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Beethoven 32 Variations in C Minor WoO 80 by Beethoven Pdf

32 Variations by Ludwig van Beethoven in c minor. For advanced level.

Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457472392

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Variations, Volume I by Ludwig van Beethoven Pdf

Titles: * 6 Variations, Opus 34 * 15 Variations with Fugue, Opus 35 * 6 Variations, Opus 76 * 33 Variations (Diabelli Variations), Opus 120 * 12 Variations on the Russian Dance from the ballet "Das Waldmädchen" * 24 Variations on "Vieni amore" by Righini * 32 Variations in C Major

Author : Susan Kagan
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0945193459

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Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven's Patron, Pupil, and Friend by Susan Kagan Pdf

In early 19th-century Austria the Archduke Rudolph occupied multiple roles: a noble Hapsburg by birth, a Cardinal-Archbishop by career, and a dedicated musician by avocation. A talented pianist and composer, Archduke Rudolph enjoyed the unique privilege of being Beethoven's only composition student, and in the two decades of studying with him produced a sizable and well-crafted body of music for piano, chamber ensemble, and voice. Many of the Archduke's autograph manuscripts were corrected in detail by Beethoven, giving us fascinating insights into Beethoven's thinking on the structure and syntax of music. This comprehensive book surveys Archduke Rudolph's life and career in music, which also encompasses his significant role as music patron and collector. It is based on a study of primary sources, principally the autograph manuscripts of his compositions and sketches, and most importantly, Beethoven's own autographs-including sketches, corrections on the Rudolph manuscripts, and a four-measure theme composed expressly for Rudolph's use-produced here, in facsimile, for the first time. Other primary sources examined include the Archduke's correspondence with Beethoven and members of the Imperial household, the catalogues of Rudolph's music collection, and documents related to his ecclesiastical career. The thematic catalogue of Archduke Rudolph's music lists all of his finished and unfinished works in chronological order, as well as sketches, copies, and transcriptions. Fifty illustrations and 190 musical examples are also provided.

Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1967-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691027188

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Thayer's Life of Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer Pdf

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 : Mark Evan Bonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190054083

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Beethoven by Mark Evan Bonds Pdf

The Scowl -- The Life -- Ideals -- Deafness -- Love -- Money -- Politics -- Composing -- Early-Middle-Late -- The Music -- "Beethoven".