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Author | : Jeremy Yudkin |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1580469930 |
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Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, this volume presents twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven's personal life, his composing process, his manuscripts, and his greatest works.
Author | : Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 168137580X |
Download Mr. Beethoven Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Scott Burnham |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2000-04-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780691050584 |
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Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, Beethoven Hero explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style. What have we come to value in this music, asks Scott Burnham, and why do generations of critics and analysts hear it in much the same way? Specifically, what is it that fosters the intensity of listener engagement with the heroic style, the often overwhelming sense of identification with its musical process? Starting with the story of heroic quest heard time and again in the first movement of the Eroica Symphony, Burnham suggests that Beethoven's music matters profoundly to its listeners because it projects an empowering sense of self, destiny, and freedom, while modeling ironic self-consciousness. In addition to thus identifying Beethoven's music as an overarching expression of values central to the age of Goethe and Hegel, the author describes and then critiques the process by which the musical values of the heroic style quickly became the controlling model of compositional logic in Western music criticism and analysis. Apart from its importance for students of Beethoven, this book will appeal to those interested in canon formation in the arts and in music as a cultural, ethical, and emotional force--and to anyone concerned with what we want from music and what music does for us.
Author | : Lewis Lockwood |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2005-01-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393326381 |
Download Beethoven: The Music and the Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Written for the general reader, this book reveals how Beethoven's great works reflect both his artistic individuality and the deepest philosophical and political currents of his age.
Author | : David Dutkanicz |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0486171671 |
Download A First Book of Ragtime Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Jan Swafford |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 1107 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 061805474X |
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The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.
Author | : Sanford Friedman |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590177886 |
Download Conversations with Beethoven Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Inspired by the famous composer’s notebooks, this biographical novel offers “a perfect portrait of an irascible genius” and “revelatory fossils of the last year of Beethoven’s anguished life” (Edmund White) Deaf as he was, Beethoven had to be addressed in writing, and he was always accompanied by a notebook in which people could scribble questions and comments. In a tour de force fiction invention, Conversations with Beethoven tells the story of the last year of Beethoven’s life almost entirely through such notebook entries. Friends, family, students, doctors, and others attend to the volatile Maestro, whose sometimes unpredictable and often very loud replies we infer. A fully fleshed and often very funny portrait of Beethoven emerges. He struggles with his music and with his health; he argues with and insults just about everyone. Most of all, he worries about his wayward—and beloved—nephew Karl. A large cast of Dickensian characters surrounds the great composer at the center of this wonderfully engaging novel, which deepens in the end to make a memorable music of its own.
Author | : Jonah Winter |
Publisher | : Schwartz & Wade |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2014-04-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307554007 |
Download The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How hard is it to move 5 legless pianos 39 times? Beethoven owned five legless pianos and composed great works on the floor. His first apartment was in the center of Vienna's theater district... but he forgot to pay rent, so he had to move. (And it's very hard to move a piano. Even harder to move five). Beethoven's next apartment was in a dangerous part of town... so he moved, and the pianos followed on a series of pulleys. Then came an apartment with a view of the Danube (but he made too much noise and the neighbors complained), followed by an attic apartment (where he made even MORE of a rukus), and so Beethoven moved again and again. Each time, pianos were bought, left behind, transported on pulleys, slides, and by movers, all so that gifted Beethoven could compose great works of music for the world.
Author | : Harvey Sachs |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2011-11-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0812969073 |
Download The Ninth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and joy was so unorthodox that it amazed and confused listeners at its unveiling—yet it became a standard for subsequent generations of creative artists, and its composer came to embody the Romantic cult of genius. In this unconventional, provocative book, Beethoven’s masterwork becomes a prism through which we may view the politics, aesthetics, and overall climate of the era. Part biography, part history, part memoir, The Ninth brilliantly explores the intricacies of Beethoven’s last symphony—how it brought forth the power of the individual while celebrating the collective spirit of humanity.
Author | : Michael Broyles |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2011-10-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0253357047 |
Download Beethoven in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines America's early reception to Beethoven, the use of his work and image in American music, movies, stage works, and other forms of popular culture, and related topics.