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Author : Thomas Scherman,Louis Leopold Biancolli
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y : Doubleday
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN, 1770-1827
ISBN : UOM:39015007837308
Author : Robert Winter,Robert Martin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520917507
While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works. This collection offers Beethoven lovers both detailed notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a stimulating range of more general perspectives: Who has the quartets' audience been? How were the quartets performed before the era of sound recordings? What is the relationship between "classical" and "romantic" in the quartets? How was their reception affected by social and economic history? What sorts of interpretive decisions are made by performers today? The Companion brings together a matchless group of Beethoven experts. Joseph Kerman is perhaps the world's most renowned Beethoven scholar. Robert Winter, an authority on sketches for the late quartets, has created interactive programs regarded as milestones in multimedia publishing. Maynard Solomon has written an acclaimed biography of Beethoven. Leon Botstein is the conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra as well as a distinguished social historian and college president. Robert Martin writes from his experience as cellist of the Sequoia Quartet. And the book is anchored by the program notes of Michael Steinberg, who has served as Artistic Advisor of the San Francisco Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra.
Author : Glenn Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107494046
This Companion, first published in 2000, provides a comprehensive view of Beethoven and his work. The first part of the book presents the composer as a private individual, as a professional, and at the work-place, discussing biographical problems, Beethoven's professional activities when not composing and his methods as a composer. In the heart of the book, individual chapters are devoted to all the major genres cultivated by Beethoven and to the elements of style and structure that cross all genres. The book concludes by looking at the ways that Beethoven and his music have been interpreted by performers, writers on music, and in the arts, literature, and philosophy. The essays in this volume, written by leading Beethoven specialists, maintain traditional emphases in Beethoven studies while incorporating other developments in musicology and theory.
Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Paul Reid
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 071907570X
This is the first full-length, published study of Beethoven's songs. All the composer's songs with piano are included, with full German texts and translations, together with comprehensive notes on the poetry and the music. The inclusion of unfinished songs gives a fascinating insight into Beethoven's compositional methods. An introductory essay considers reasons for the relative neglect of the songs, the significance of Beethoven's choice of texts, his crucial role in the development of German art of song, and specific aspects such as choice of key. It is anticipated that this book, like its predecessor The Schubert Song Companion, will encourage the performance and study of an important but comparatively neglected aspect of the work of the world's most celebrated composer.
Author : Thomas Scherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Music
ISBN : 0385081766
Author : Donald Francis Tovey,Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251495362
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1264820779
Author : Jim Samson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521477522
Twelve essays by leading Chopin scholars provide a uniquely comprehensive guide to the composer and his music.
Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108422581
A stimulating, up-to-date overview of the genesis, analysis, and reception of this landmark symphony.
Author : Julian Horton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107469709
Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book complements a detailed review of the symphony's history with focused analytical essays from leading scholars on the symphonic music of both mainstream composers, including Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and lesser-known figures, including Carter, Berio and Maxwell Davies. With chapters on a comprehensive range of topics, from the symphony's origins to the politics of its reception in the twentieth century, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the history, analysis and performance of the symphonic repertoire.
Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : 44,6 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 : Robert Taub
Publisher : Amadeus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Sonatas (Piano)
ISBN : 1574671782
Acclaimed pianist Robert Taub offers the insights of a passionate musician who performs all 32 of Beethoven's well-loved piano sonatas in concert worldwide bringing a fresh perspective on Beethoven as the ÊNew York TimesÊ put it. In this book he shares his intimate understanding of these works with listeners and players alike.
Author : Matthew Guerrieri
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780804170192
A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year This revelatory book of music history examines what is perhaps the best known and most-popular symphony ever written—and its famous four-note opening. Reaching back before Beethoven’s time, Matthew Guerrieri uncovers premonitions of the opening notes in the rhythms of ancient Greek poetry and the music of the French Revolution. He discusses the Fifth’s impact when it premiered, tracing the artistic, philosophical, and political reverberations across Europe to China, Russia, and the United States, from Romanticism to ring tones, from propaganda to pop. This fascinating piece of musical detective work is a treat for music lovers of every stripe.
