Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980
Author: British Library. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Arnold Schoenberg Institute Archives Preliminary Catalog
Author: Arnold Schoenberg InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Music Library Association Catalog of Cards for Printed Music, 1953-1972
Author: Music Library AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967: Authors & titles
Author: University of California (System). Institute of Library ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Mozart's Music of Friends
Author: Edward KlormanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107093651
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This study analyzes chamber music from Mozart's time within its highly social salon-performance context.
Quartet no. 1 for piano & strings, G minor (K. 478) ; Quartet no. 2 : for piano & strings, Eb major (K. 493) ; Quintet : for piano & winds, E♭ major (K. 452)
Author: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Piano quartets
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Mathematicians of the World, Unite!
Author: Guillermo CurberaPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439865124
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This vividly illustrated history of the International Congress of Mathematicians- a meeting of mathematicians from around the world held roughly every four years- acts as a visual history of the 25 congresses held between 1897 and 2006, as well as a story of changes in the culture of mathematics over the past century. Because the congress is an int
Cyclopedia of Music & Musicians
Author: John Denison ChamplinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven (Complete)
Author: Alexander Wheelock ThayerPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146558322X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
Book Description
If for no other reasons than because of the long time and monumental patience expended upon its preparation, the vicissitudes through which it has passed and the varied and arduous labors bestowed upon it by the author and his editors, the history of Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set forth as an introduction to this work. His work it is, and his monument, though others have labored long and painstakingly upon it. There has been no considerable time since the middle of the last century when it has not occupied the minds of the author and those who have been associated with him in its creation. Between the conception of its plan and its execution there lies a period of more than two generations. Four men have labored zealously and affectionately upon its pages, and the fruits of more than four score men, stimulated to investigation by the first revelations made by the author, have been conserved in the ultimate form of the biography. It was seventeen years after Mr. Thayer entered upon what proved to be his life-task before he gave the first volume to the world—and then in a foreign tongue; it was thirteen more before the third volume came from the press. This volume, moreover, left the work unfinished, and thirty-two years more had to elapse before it was completed. When this was done the patient and self-sacrificing investigator was dead; he did not live to finish it himself nor to see it finished by his faithful collaborator of many years, Dr. Deiters; neither did he live to look upon a single printed page in the language in which he had written that portion of the work published in his lifetime. It was left for another hand to prepare the English edition of an American writer’s history of Germany’s greatest tone-poet, and to write its concluding chapters, as he believes, in the spirit of the original author. Under these circumstances there can be no vainglory in asserting that the appearance of this edition of Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set down as a significant occurrence in musical history. In it is told for the first time in the language of the great biographer the true story of the man Beethoven—his history stripped of the silly sentimental romance with which early writers and their later imitators and copyists invested it so thickly that the real humanity, the humanliness, of the composer has never been presented to the world. In this biography there appears the veritable Beethoven set down in his true environment of men and things—the man as he actually was, the man as he himself, like Cromwell, asked to be shown for the information of posterity. It is doubtful if any other great man’s history has been so encrusted with fiction as Beethoven’s. Except Thayer’s, no biography of him has been written which presents him in his true light. The majority of the books which have been written of late years repeat many of the errors and falsehoods made current in the first books which were written about him. A great many of these errors and falsehoods are in the account of the composer’s last sickness and death, and were either inventions or exaggerations designed by their utterers to add pathos to a narrative which in unadorned truth is a hundredfold more pathetic than any tale of fiction could possibly be. Other errors have concealed the truth in the story of Beethoven’s guardianship of his nephew, his relations with his brothers, the origin and nature of his fatal illness, his dealings with his publishers and patrons, the generous attempt of the Philharmonic Society of London to extend help to him when upon his deathbed.