Author: Paul NettlPublisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
First published 1956. A-Z guide to the composer's life and career
The Beethoven Encyclopedia
Author: Paul NettlPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504067630
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This comprehensive A-to-Z reference is comprised of detailed and authoritative entries on every aspect of the great composer’s life. Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most famous and revered composers in classical music. His instantly recognizable concertos and symphonies continue to be among the most performed by symphonies across the globe. In this definitive reference volume, eminent musicologist Paul Nettl provides students and researchers with an in-depth biographical resource organized in alphabetical entries. The Beethoven Encyclopedia covers the German composer’s music, personal life, and patrons, among other topics, such as the forces that inspired his genius.
Beethoven Encyclopedia
Author: Paul NettlBeethoven: The Music and the Life
Author: Lewis LockwoodPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393326381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
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.
Beethoven and His World
Author: H. P. ClivePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198166726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Following the author's acclaimed biographical dictionaries on Schubert and Mozart, 'Beethoven and His World' offers an extremely comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the composer's relations with a multitude of persons with whom he associated on a personal or professional basis: relatives,friends, acquaintances, librettists, poets, publishers, artists, patrons, and musicians. With more than 450 entries, the dictionary is the result of a wide-ranging examination of primary and secondary sources, and critically assesses the use which scholars have made of the considerabledocumentation now available. In particular, there are numerous references to Beethoven's correspondence and conversation books, which have recently been published in excellent new editions. The book places the composer and his music in a fuller context and a wider perspective than might bepossible in a traditional biography; it will appeal to all music lovers, both the scholar and the non-specilaist alike.
The Life of Beethoven
Author: David Wyn JonesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521568784
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
'My compositions bring me in a good deal ... I state my price and they pay.' Beethoven was an inspired composer but he was also a working musician with sound commercial sense. David Wyn Jones's account of Beethoven the man and composer reveals the life of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history of music, this biography places his work in the context of the musical life of the period. Through an understanding of the changing nature of musical patronage, the private and public concert, the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on culture and society, and the increasing ambition of musical life in the period after the end of the wars, a varied and dynamic picture of Beethoven's musical career emerges.
Beethoven Encyclopedia
Author: Paul NettlBeethoven Handbook
Author: Paul NettlPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The NPR Listener's Encyclopedia of Classical Music
Author: Theodore LibbeyPublisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9780761136422
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
A resource on classical music provides coverage of composers, works, musical terminology, and performers, along with recommended recordings and access to an interactive Web site that allows readers to listen to sample works, techniques, and performers discussed in the reference.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author: Joseph Schmidt-GörgBeethoven 1806
Author: Mark FerragutoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190947195
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Between early 1806 and early 1807, Ludwig van Beethoven completed a remarkable series of instrumental works. But critics have struggled to reconcile the music of this banner year with Beethoven's "heroic style," the paradigm through which his middle-period works have typically been understood. Drawing on theories of mediation and a wealth of primary sources, Beethoven 1806 explores the specific contexts in which the music of this year was conceived, composed, and heard. As author Mark Ferraguto argues, understanding this music depends on appreciating the relationships that it both creates and reflects. Not only did Beethoven depend on patrons, performers, publishers, critics, and audiences to earn a living, but he also tailored his compositions to suit particular sensibilities, proclivities, and technologies.