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Author: Franz Alexander Pössinger Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc. ISBN: 1987209125 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 131
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Franz Alexander Pössinger (1766–1827) was a highly respected Viennese violinist, composer, and arranger who spent the majority of his life working for the opera orchestra of the Nationaltheater and later the Hoftheaterorchester. Among Pössinger’s yet-unstudied chamber music are four sets of string quartets. Despite forming a large part of his oeuvre, studies, editions, and recordings of his quartets have been notably lacking. This new edition of Pössinger’s three opus 8 quartets (in C minor, F major, and A major) aims to raise awareness of the composer’s work, which is often of a high standard: indeed, a contemporary review of the opus 8 quartets compared them favorably to the quartets of Mozart, Haydn, and Andreas Romberg. Moreover, Pössinger’s quartets reflect the complex and multifaceted nature of chamber music in Vienna during the age of Beethoven.
Author: Franz Alexander Pössinger Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc. ISBN: 1987209125 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 131
Book Description
Franz Alexander Pössinger (1766–1827) was a highly respected Viennese violinist, composer, and arranger who spent the majority of his life working for the opera orchestra of the Nationaltheater and later the Hoftheaterorchester. Among Pössinger’s yet-unstudied chamber music are four sets of string quartets. Despite forming a large part of his oeuvre, studies, editions, and recordings of his quartets have been notably lacking. This new edition of Pössinger’s three opus 8 quartets (in C minor, F major, and A major) aims to raise awareness of the composer’s work, which is often of a high standard: indeed, a contemporary review of the opus 8 quartets compared them favorably to the quartets of Mozart, Haydn, and Andreas Romberg. Moreover, Pössinger’s quartets reflect the complex and multifaceted nature of chamber music in Vienna during the age of Beethoven.
Author: Mara Parker Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351540270 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 289
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The second half of the eighteenth century witnessed a flourishing of the string quartet, often represented as a smooth and logical progression from first violin-dominated homophony to a more equal conversation between the four voices. Yet this progression was neither as smooth nor as linear as previously thought, as Mara Parker illustrates in her examination of the string quartet during this period. Looking at a wide variety of string quartets by composers such as Pleyel, Distler and Filtz, in addition to Haydn and Mozart, the book proposes a new way of describing the relationships between the four instruments in different works. Broadly speaking, these relationships follow one of four patterns: the 'lecture', the 'polite conversation', the 'debate', and the 'conversation'. In focusing on these musical discourses, it becomes apparent that each work is the product of its composer's stylistic choices, location, intended performers and intended audience. Instead of evolving in a strict and universal sequence, the string quartet in the latter half of the eighteenth century was a complex genre with composers mixing and matching musical discourses as circumstances and their own creative impulses required.
Author: Jan Caeyers Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520390210 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 656
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"With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn, ... Beethoven conductor and scholar Jan Caeyers ... weaves together a deeply human and complex image of Beethoven--his troubled youth, his unpredictable mood swings, his desires, relationships, and conflicts with family and friends, the mysteries surrounding his affair with the 'immortal beloved, ' and the dramatic tale of his deafness. Caeyers also offers new insights into Beethoven's music and its gradual transformation from the work of a skilled craftsman into that of a consummate artist"--Publisher marketing.
Author: Nancy November Publisher: Academic Studies PRess ISBN: 1644697890 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 346
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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: DavidWyn Jones Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351564072 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 554
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This volume brings together a selection of the most stimulating and influential writing on Haydn and his music in the English language. Written by a range of established and younger scholars it probes a variety of aesthetic, biographical, compositional, performance and reception issues. A specially written introduction summarizes the significance of each essay, directs the reader to appropriate complementary material and seeks the common ground between the essays; to assist with consistent referencing the individual essays retain their original pagination. This representative compendium of Haydn research provides the opportunity to explore the intellectual diversity of recent scholarship and is an indispensable publication for students of Haydn, whether new or old, amateur or professional.
Author: Walter Frisch Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400833620 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 479
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Since its first publication in 1990, Brahms and His World has become a key text for listeners, performers, and scholars interested in the life, work, and times of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated composers. In this substantially revised and enlarged edition, the editors remain close to the vision behind the original book while updating its contents to reflect new perspectives on Brahms that have developed over the past two decades. To this end, the original essays by leading experts are retained and revised, and supplemented by contributions from a new generation of Brahms scholars. Together, they consider such topics as Brahms's relationship with Clara and Robert Schumann, his musical interactions with the "New German School" of Wagner and Liszt, his influence upon Arnold Schoenberg and other young composers, his approach to performing his own music, and his productive interactions with visual artists. The essays are complemented by a new selection of criticism and analyses of Brahms's works published by the composer's contemporaries, documenting the ways in which Brahms's music was understood by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century audiences in Europe and North America. A new selection of memoirs by Brahms's friends, students, and early admirers provides intimate glimpses into the composer's working methods and personality. And a catalog of the music, literature, and visual arts dedicated to Brahms documents the breadth of influence exerted by the composer upon his contemporaries.
Author: Benedict Taylor Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009084399 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 133
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The String Quartet in E flat major (1834) by Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, is one of the most important works by a female composer written in the nineteenth century. Composed at a turning point in her life (as Hensel was not only grappling with her own creative voice but also coming to terms with her identity as a married woman, and the role her family expected of her), the quartet is significant in showing a woman composing in a genre that was then almost exclusively the domain of male artists. Benedict Taylor's illuminating book situates itself within developing scholarly discourse on the music of women composers, going beyond apologetics – or condemnation of those who hindered their development – to examine the strength and qualities of the music and how it responded to the most progressive works of the period.
Author: Emily Green Publisher: ISBN: 1580469493 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 262
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Why dedicate music? What did dedications mean to their readers and writers, especially after 1785, when more works were offered to fellow composers as well as to patrons? Borrowing from book history and sociological theory, Dedicating Music, 1785-1850 is a large-scale study of patterns of dedications. Emily H. Green argues that the kinds of offerings printed in the late eighteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries reflect a changing financial and aesthetic landscape in which patronage was waning and independent artistry surging. Dedications labeled written music as a gift while presenting composers with an opportunity for self-promotion. They also contributed to a new kind of branding of music by communicating composers' friendships and artistic allegiances.. Dedicating Music considers dedications issued in print between 1785 and 1850 in sets of overlapping corpuses: offerings to peers (as in Mozart's string quartets dedicated to Haydn); to patrons (as in Ignaz Pleyel's string quartets for Count Erd dy); to friends (as in Ferdinand Ries's offerings for Beethoven); and dedications issued by publishers (as in Beethoven's song "In questa tomba oscura," included in publisher Tranquillo Mollo's collection offered to Prince Lobkowitz). The result is a synchronic study that highlights the importance of printed packaging, rather than notes on the page, to the complex relationship between composers, publishers, and consumers of music. EMILY H. GREEN is Assistant Professor of Music at George Mason University. The University of Rochester Press gratefully acknowledges generous support from the Claire and Barry Brook Endowment of the American Musicological Society and the AMS 75 PAYS Endowment of the American Musicological Society, both funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Author: Franz Alexander Pössinger
Author: Franz Alexander Pössinger
Author: Harold Reeves (Firm)
Author: Mara Parker
Author: Jan Caeyers
Author: Nancy November
Author: DavidWyn Jones
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Author: Walter Frisch
Author: Benedict Taylor
Author: Emily Green