Author: Felix WeingartnerPublisher: New York : E.F. Kalmus Orchestra Scores
ISBN:
Category : Conducting
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
On the Performance of Beethoven's Symphonies
Author: Felix WeingartnerPublisher: New York : E.F. Kalmus Orchestra Scores
ISBN:
Category : Conducting
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
On the Performance of Beethoven's Symphonies and Other Essays
Author: Felix WeingartnerPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048617476X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Three important works by conductor Felix Weingartner (1863–1942) include a detailed account of performing difficulties and interpretation questions involved in each of Beethoven's symphonies, plus the essays "On Conducting" and "The Symphony Since Beethoven."
A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies with a Few Words on His Trios and Sonatas, a Criticism of Fidelio, and an Introductory Essay on Music
Author: Hector BerliozPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252069420
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A daring composer in his own right, Hector Berlioz made a considerable reputation and a modest living for himself writing about music. This compact volume gathers brief, pithy essays Berlioz wrote on Beethoven's nine symphonies, his opera, Fidelio, and his piano sonatas and trios. Berlioz vividly depicts the salient features of the music with observations that are acute and passionate, as valuable for musicians as for amateurs. Beyond its astute commentary on the music, however, Berlioz's book offers a rare firsthand look at the reception and reputation accorded Beethoven's music in the decades following his death. Berlioz transcribes the comments of amateurs leaving the conservatoire after a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and provides a mocking glimpse of the French appreciation of the great German composer: What stands in the way of the music of 'Fidelio' as regards the Parisian public is ... the great disdain of the composer for sonorous effects which are not justified. He addresses Beethoven's skillful use of the orchestra as an instrument of drama and the general disapprobation that greeted this approach. He also includes a satirical piece on the fad of calling up the spirit of a composer and transcribing new, posthumous compositions. Berlioz's essays testify to the tumult caused by Beethoven's music in his time and offer ways to approach the music that remain enlightening and fresh.
On the Performance of Beethoven's Symphonies
Author: Felix WeingartnerPublisher: New York : E.F. Kalmus Orchestra Scores
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
This is a 1906 guide to the art of performing Beethoven's symphonies written by Austrian conductor, composer and musician?Felix Weingartner.
ON THE PERFORMANCE OF BEETHOVEN'S SYMPHONIES
Author: FELIX. WEINGARTNERPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033428764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On the Performance of Beethoven's Symphonies (Classic Reprint)
Author: Felix WeingartnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331911944
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Excerpt from On the Performance of Beethoven's Symphonies The secret of the artistic rendering of musical compositions, and hence the secret of the conductor's art, lies in the style. The reproducing artist, in this case the conductor, must have absorbed into himself, so to speak, the peculiarity of each master and each masterpiece, and his rendering must be subordinate to this peculiarity even in the smallest details. As regards the time, the phrasing, the treatment of the sounds in the orchestra and even the technical manipulation, the conductor must assume a different personality according as he is conducting the Eroica or the Pastorale, Tristan or the Meistersinger, according as he is trying to reproduce Haydn or Beethoven, Berlioz or Wagner. I believe I am not going too far when I say that a conductor of genius unites in himself just as many personalities as he reproduces masterpieces. One of the essential conditions of the style of an execution must be clearness, and this is the quality which will occupy us here with regard to Beethoven's Symphonies. This, is precisely the point in which these greatest of all orchestral compositions offer the greatest difficulty, for even a perfectly correct rendering does not always make the intentions of the master as clear as they become by the reading of the score, or even by the playing of the pianoforte extracts. Indeed it must be confessed that many passages awaken a feeling of confusion rather than of pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
On the Performance of Beethoven's Symphonies
Author: Felix 1863-1942 WeingartnerPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781013865381
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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Beethoven's Symphonies
Author: John Bell YoungPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574671698
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Ludwig Van Beethoven's nine symphonies stand as towering masterworks at the core of the classical canon. In Beethoven's hands, the symphony expanded dramatically in scope and power in a way that would revolutionise both the form itself and music in general. The impact of Beethoven's nine was such that composers long after him would write their own symphonies in his shadow. In this book, acclaimed Pianist and critic John Bell Young explores each of the nine symphonies, always looking beneath the surface for what makes the music so compelling. He places them in their historical and cultural context, and he describes how the Russian concept of intonatsiia, a way of perceiving relationships "between the notes," can help deepen our appreciation of these pieces. The accompanying CD contains selections from all of the symphonies, each performance conducted by the legendary Wilhelm Furtwangler.
Performing Beethoven
Author: Robin StowellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521416443
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The ten essays in this volume explore different aspects of the performance of instrumental works by Beethoven. Each essay discusses performance issues from Beethoven's time to the present, whether the objective be to realise a performance in an historically appropriate manner, to elucidate the interpretation of Beethoven's music by conductors and performers, to clarify transcriptions by editors or to reconstruct the experience of the listener in various different periods. Four contributions focus on the piano music while another group concentrates on Beethoven's music for strings. These chapters are complemented by an examination of Beethoven's exploitation of the developing wind choir, an evaluation of early twentieth-century recordings as pointers to early nineteenth-century performance practice and an historical survey of rescorings in Beethoven's symphonies.
On the Performance of Beethoven's Symphonies
Author: Weingartner Felix 1863-1942Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781348257158
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
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