The String Quartets Of Beethoven

Author : William Kinderman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252091629

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The String Quartets of Beethoven by William Kinderman Pdf

"We do not understand music--it understands us." This aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno expresses the quandary and the fascination many listeners have felt in approaching Beethoven's late quartets. No group of compositions occupies a more central position in chamber music, yet the meaning of these works continues to stimulate debate. William Kinderman's The String Quartets of Beethoven stands as the most detailed and comprehensive exploration of the subject. It collects new work by leading international scholars who draw on a variety of historical sources and analytical approaches to offer fresh insights into the aesthetics of the quartets, probing expressive and structural features that have hitherto received little attention. This volume also includes an appendix with updated information on the chronology and sources of the quartets and a detailed bibliography.

Author : Edward Dusinberre
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571317158

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Beethoven for a Later Age by Edward Dusinberre Pdf

'They are not for you but for a later age!' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartets. Tackling the Beethoven quartets is a rite of passage that has shaped the Takács Quartet's work together for over forty years. Using the history of the composition and first performances of the quartets as the backbone to his story, Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the Takács since 1993 - recounts the life of the Quartet from its inception in Hungary, through emigration to the US and its present-day life as one of the world's renowned string quartets. He also describes what it was like for him, as a young man fresh out of the Juilliard School, to join the Quartet as its first non-Hungarian member - an exhilarating challenge. Beethoven for a Later Age takes the reader inside the life of a quartet, vividly showing how four people enjoy making music together over a long period of time. The key, the author argues, is in balancing continuity with change and experimentation - a theme that also lies at the heart of Beethoven's remarkable compositions.

Author : Phillip Radcliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978-09-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521219639

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Beethoven's String Quartets by Phillip Radcliffe Pdf

Beethoven's string quartets form one of the most intimate and revealing sections of his output, giving a full and varied picture of his musical personality. This study of the quartets by Philip Radcliffe, first published by Hutchinson University in 1965, was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 1978. Each work is examined in detail describing the development of Beethoven's style - a method that highlights the very strong individuality that remained unimpaired throughout the composition of these quartets. They are compared with Beethoven's other music and with the string quartets of composers before and since. This is a book which has proved itself to be of continuing value to the student of music at school and university level and to the general reader.

Author : Robert Winter,Robert Martin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520917507

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The Beethoven Quartet Companion by Robert Winter,Robert Martin Pdf

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 : Lewis Lockwood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0674028090

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Inside Beethoven’s Quartets by Lewis Lockwood Pdf

Beethoven's string quartets have rewarded the engagement of scholars, performers, and audiences for almost two hundred years. This book and its accompanying recording invite you to experience three of these profound and beautiful works of music from the inside, with a renowned Beethoven scholar and the Juilliard String Quartet as your guides.

Author : Basil Lam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : String quartets
ISBN : UOM:39015009615082

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Beethoven String Quartets by Basil Lam Pdf

Author : Joseph Kerman
Publisher : New York : A. A. Knopf
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : String quartets
ISBN : UOM:39015056369351

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The Beethoven Quartets by Joseph Kerman Pdf

With more than 180 musical examples, this book offers a passage-by-passage examination of the nature, structure, significance, and interrelationships of sixteen compositions that are among the greatest music ever composed.

Author : Hans Keller
Publisher : Hans Keller Archive
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 0993198368

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Beethoven's String Quartet in B Flat Major, Op. 130 by Hans Keller Pdf

[V.1] Four lectures -- [v.2] Supplementary scores.

Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781644697894

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String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe by Nancy November Pdf

String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe is the first detailed study of string quartets in late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Europe. It brings together the work of nine scholars who explore little-studied aspects of this multi-faceted genre. Together, this book’s chapters deal with compositional responses to Beethoven’s string quartets and the prestige of the genre; varied compositional practices in string quartet writing, with a particular emphasis on texture and performance elements; and the reception of Beethoven’s string quartets ca. 1800. They include discussions of quartets composed for the amateur and connoisseur markets in Beethoven’s Europe; virtuosity, the French Violin School, and the quatuor brillant; the relationship between quartet composers and their audiences during Beethoven’s era; and the cross-pollination of quartet styles in Europe’s musical centers such as Vienna, Paris, and St. Petersburg.

Author : Lewis Lockwood,Joel Smirnoff,Ronald Copes,Samuel Rhodes,Joel Krosnick
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780674028098

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Inside Beethoven’s Quartets by Lewis Lockwood,Joel Smirnoff,Ronald Copes,Samuel Rhodes,Joel Krosnick Pdf

Beethoven's string quartets have rewarded the engagement of scholars, performers, and audiences for almost two hundred years. This book and its accompanying recording invite you to experience three of these profound and beautiful works of music from the inside, with a renowned Beethoven scholar and the Juilliard String Quartet as your guides.

Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107512429

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Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets by Nancy November Pdf

Beethoven's middle-period quartets, Opp. 59, 74 and 95, are pieces that engage deeply with the aesthetic ideas of their time. In the first full contextual study of these works, Nancy November celebrates their uniqueness, exploring their reception history and early performance. In detailed analyses, she explores ways in which the quartets have both reflected and shaped the very idea of chamber music and offers a new historical understanding of the works' physical, visual, social and ideological aspects. In the process, November provides a fresh critique of three key paradigms in current Beethoven studies: the focus on his late period; the emphasis on 'heroic' style in discussions of the middle period; and the idea of string quartets as 'pure', 'autonomous' artworks, cut off from social moorings. Importantly, this study shows that the quartets encompass a new lyric and theatrical impetus, which is an essential part of their unique, explorative character.

Author : Robert Winter,Robert L. Martin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520082117

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The Beethoven Quartet Companion by Robert Winter,Robert L. Martin Pdf

"Reading The Beethoven Quartet Companion made me want to listen to the quartets again from a new sociological as well as musical perspective. It is an invaluable guide not only for professional and amateur musicians but also for anyone who is curious about culture and wants to find out more."--Yo-Yo Ma "These essays are the most readable, useful, and well-informed commentary available today on these masterworks. Michael Steinberg's 'program notes' to each quartet, directed at once to the musical beginner and to the expert, are as eloquent and persuasive as popular writing about music can get. . . . His essays are followed by equally expert and accessible contributions by other masters on The Master, providing literate music lovers with the context and equipment for a richer enjoyment and clearer understanding of these sixteen unique conversations among two violins, a viola, and a cello."--David Littlejohn, author of The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera "A fine collection of essays to assist the music lover in the seemingly endless quest to illuminate the Beethoven string quartets."--Arnold Steinhardt, The Guarneri String Quartet "This book delivers on the implied promise of its title--it provides a lively, readable, and wide-ranging introduction to the quartets. Readers at many levels of experience will find it profitable."--Lewis Lockwood, author of Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process

Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190059231

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Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131 by Nancy November Pdf

Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp minor Op. 131 (1826) is not only firmly a part of the scholarly canon, the performing canon, and the pedagogical canon, but also makes its presence felt in popular culture. Yet in recent times, the terms in which the C-sharp minor quartet is discussed and presented tend to undermine the multivalent nature of the work. Although it is held up as a masterpiece, Op. 131 has often been understood in monochrome terms as a work portraying tragedy, struggle, and loss. In Beethoven's String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, Op. 13, author Nancy November takes the modern-day listener well beyond these categories of adversity or deficit. The book goes back to early reception documents, including Beethoven's own writings about the work, to help the listener reinterpret and re-hear it. This book reveals the diverse musical ideas present in Op. 131 and places the work in the context of an emerging ideology of silent or 'serious' listening in Beethoven's Europe. It considers how this particular 'late' quartet could speak with special eloquence to a highly select but passionately enthusiastic audience and examines how and why the reception of Op. 131 has changed so profoundly from Beethoven's time to our own.

Author : Nancy November
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Music
ISBN : 1783272325

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Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven's Vienna by Nancy November Pdf

The first detailed contextual study of chamber music in Beethoven's Vienna, at a time when the string quartet reigned supreme among the different chamber genres

Author : Christoph Wolff,Robert Riggs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Music
ISBN : UCAL:B3966624

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The String Quartets of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven by Christoph Wolff,Robert Riggs Pdf

This broad spectrum of papers and extensive scholarly debate focuses on a quintessential repertoire of musical works from the classical era. The autograph sketches, drafts, and scores of various kinds are shown to be central sources for our understanding of the genesis and history, as well as for the analysis and performance, of the compositions.