Author: Harvey GracePublisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author: Harvey GracePublisher: London : K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Life and Works of Ludwig Van Beethoven : Beethoven Centennial, 1828-1927
Author: The Life and Works of Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author: Columbia Phonograph Company, incPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author: Harvey GraceBeethoven in German Politics, 1870-1989
Author: David B. DennisPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300105292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This absorbing book chronicles the exploitation of Beethoven's life and work by German political parties from the founding of the modern nation in 1870 to the peaceful East German Revolution of 1989. David Dennis taps a wealth of new archival resources to examine for the first time how propagandists of every persuasion have transformed Beethoven and his art into powerful, and varied, national symbols. In fascinating detail, Dennis introduces many 'Beethovens, ' each fashioned as part of a process that transformed the composer into the most protean, and widely abused, cultural-political symbol in modern German history.-David Large, Montana State University This book] should fascinate not only Beethoven devotees but also anyone interested in the elusiveness and malleability of historical evidence.-James R. Oestreich, New York Time
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author: Carl DahlhausPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198163992
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Many books have been written about Beethoven. But it is rare to find one that seeks an alternative between the fragmentation found in most specialized studies and the superficial overview typical of popular biography. In this volume, Carl Dahlhaus, one of the century's leading musicologists, combines interpretations of individual works that focus on issues of composition and musical history, with excursions into the musical aesthetics of the period around 1800; an age that was not only a "classical" period in the history of the arts but also one in that aesthetics carved itself a place in the center of philosophical attention. The theme of the book is the reconstruction of Beethoven's "musical thinking" from the evidence in the works themselves and their context in the history of ideas.
Beethoven's Ninth
Author: Esteban BuchPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226078243
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Who hasn't been stirred by the strains of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony? That's a good question, claims Esteban Buch. German nationalists and French republicans, communists and Catholics have all, in the course of history, embraced the piece. It was performed under the direction of Leonard Bernstein at a concert to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, yet it also serves as a ghastly and ironic leitmotif in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Hitler celebrated his birthdays with it, and the government of Rhodesia made it their anthem. And played in German concentration camps by the imprisoned, it also figured prominently at Mitterand's 1981 investiture. In his remarkable history of one of the most popular symphonic works of the modern period, Buch traces such complex and contradictory uses—and abuses—of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony since its premier in 1824. Buch shows that Beethoven consciously drew on the tradition of European political music, with its mix of sacred and profane, military and religious themes, when he composed his symphony. But while Beethoven obviously had his own political aspirations for the piece—he wanted it to make a statement about ideal power—he could not have had any idea of the antithetical political uses, nationalist and universalist, to which the Ninth Symphony has been put since its creation. Buch shows us how the symphony has been "deployed" throughout nearly two centuries, and in the course of this exploration offers what was described by one French reviewer as "a fundamental examination of the moral value of art." Sensitive and fascinating, this account of the tangled political existence of a symphony is a rare book that shows the life of an artwork through time, shifted and realigned with the currents of history.
The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author: Alexander Wheelock ThayerPublisher: New York : The Beethoven Association ; London : Novello
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven (The Complete Three-Volume Edition)
Author: Alexander Wheelock ThayerPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1229
Book Description
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven is the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, covering Beethoven's life to 1816. Thayer became aware of many discrepancies in the already existing biographies of Beethoven, so in 1849 he sailed for Europe to undertake his own researches, learning German and collecting information. Still after many updates Thayer's biography of Beethoven is regarded as a standard work of reference on the composer.
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fidelio
Author: Paul A. RobinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458528
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This book explores the fascinating musical and dramatic elements within Fidelio, Beethoven's only complete opera.