The New Beethoven (eBook, PDF)

Evolution, Analysis, Interpretation
Redaktion: Yudkin, Jeremy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Beethoven's music stands as a universal symbol of personal and artistic achievement. As we reach and then surpass the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, Jeremy Yudkin has commissioned a collection of new essays from some of the most insightful writers on Beethoven's accomplishments and brought them together in this remarkable volume. Filled with careful explanations, this book gives us completely new insights into music known and loved by people around the world.

Ordinary music lovers as well as scholars will find countless new discoveries about Beethoven and his music. Listeners will hear his compositions afresh, and scholars will find new results of research and analysis and new avenues for discovery. Topics include Beethoven's cultural milieu, his personal life, his friends, his publishers, his instruments, his working methods, his own handwritten scores, and, of course, his music. Many works are carefully discussed and explained in ways that reveal fascinating and previously unknown aspects of compositions that we thought we knew well. A landmark publication for all who admire some of the greatest music of our civilization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 572
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787448124
• Artikelnr.: 63205060

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Yudkin

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - Jeremy Yudkin Introduction - Jeremy Yudkin PART ONE: A Creative
Life Of Deserters and Orphans: Beethoven's Early Exposure to the
Opéras-comiques of Monsigny - Steven Moore Whiting "A really excellent and
capable man": Beethoven and Johann Traeg - David Wyn Jones A Four-Leaf
Clover: A Newly Discovered Cello, the Premiere of the Ninth Symphony,
Beethoven's Circle of Friends in Bonn, and a Corrected Edition of the Song
Ruf vom Berge, WoO 147 - Michael Ladenburger "Where Thought Touches the
Blood": Rhythmic Disturbance as Physical Realism in Beethoven's Creative
Process - Bruce Adolphe The Sanctification of Beethoven in 1828 -
Christopher Reynolds PART TWO: Prometheus/"Eroica" The Prometheus Theme and
Beethoven's Shift from Avoidance to Embrace of Possibilities - Alan Gosman
Beethoven at Heiligenstadt in 1802: Deconstruction, Integration, and
Creativity - William Kinderman 'Mit Verstärkung des Orchesters': The
Orchestra Personnel at the First Public Performance of Beethoven's Eroica
- Theodore Albrecht PART THREE: Masses "Aber lieber Beethoven, was haben
Sie denn wieder da gemacht?": Observations on the Performing Parts for the
Premiere of Beethoven's Mass in C, Op. 86? - Jeremiah McGrann Heart to
Heart: Beethoven, Archduke Rudolph, and the Missa Solemnis - Mark Evan
Bonds God and the Voice of Beethoven - Scott Burnham PART FOUR: Quartets
'So Here I Am, in the Middle Way': The Autograph of the "Harp" Quartet and
the Expressive Domain of Beethoven's Second Maturity - M. Lucy Turner
Meaningful Details: Expressive Markings in Beethoven Manuscripts, with a
Focus on Opus 127 - Nicholas Kitchen The Autograph Score of the Slow
Movement of Beethoven's Last Quartet, Op. 135 - Barry Cooper Early
German-Language Reviews of Beethoven's Late String Quartets - Robin Wallace
PART FIVE: Explorations Three Movements or Four? The Scherzo Movements in
Beethoven's Early Sonatas - Erica Buurman Utopia and Dystopia Revisited:
Contrasted Domains in Beethoven's Middle-Period F-Major and F-minor Works -
Barbara Barry Schooling the Quintjäger - David Levy Cue-Staff Annotations
in Beethoven's Piano Works: Reflections and Examples from the Autograph of
the Piano Sonata, Op. 101 - Federica Rovelli 'Another Little Buck out of
Its Stable' - Richard Kramer Beethoven's Cavatina, Haydn's Seasons, and the
Thickness of Inscription - Elaine Sisman