The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries
The Critical Reception of Beethoven's Compositions by His German Contemporaries

Author: Wayne M. Senner

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1999-05-25

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780803212503

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Compiled here are reviews, reports, notes, and essays found in German-language periodicals published between 1783 and 1830. The documents are translated into English with copious notes and annotations, an introductory essay, and indexes of names, subjects, and works. This volume contains a general section and documents on specific opus numbers up to opus 54, with musical examples redrawn from the original publications. ø The collection brings to light contemporary perceptions of Beethoven?s music, including matters such as audience, setting, facilities, orchestra, instruments, and performers as well as the relationship of Beethoven?s music to theoretical and critical ideas of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These documents, most of which appear in English for the first time, present a wide spectrum of insights into the perceptions that Beethoven?s contemporaries had of his monumental music.

The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven
The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven

Author: Glenn Stanley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-05-11

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1107494044

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This Companion, first published in 2000, provides a comprehensive view of Beethoven and his work. The first part of the book presents the composer as a private individual, as a professional, and at the work-place, discussing biographical problems, Beethoven's professional activities when not composing and his methods as a composer. In the heart of the book, individual chapters are devoted to all the major genres cultivated by Beethoven and to the elements of style and structure that cross all genres. The book concludes by looking at the ways that Beethoven and his music have been interpreted by performers, writers on music, and in the arts, literature, and philosophy. The essays in this volume, written by leading Beethoven specialists, maintain traditional emphases in Beethoven studies while incorporating other developments in musicology and theory.

Beethoven's Critics
Beethoven's Critics

Author: Robin Wallace

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1990-01-26

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780521386340

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This 1990 book is a survey of the critical reaction to Beethoven's music as it appeared in the major musical journals, French as well as German, of his day, and represents the first published history of Beethoven reception. The author discusses the philosophical and analytical implications of these reviews and reassesses what has come to be the accepted view of a nineteenth-century musical aesthetics rooted in Romantic Idealism. Wallace sees Beethoven's critics as in fact providing a link between two apparently antithetical approaches to music: the eighteenth-century emphasis on expression and extra-musical interpretation and the nineteenth-century emphasis on 'absolute' music and formal analysis. This book thus provides, in addition to a carefully documented study of Beethoven's critical reception, a re-evaluation of his oeuvre and its significance in music history. An index of all reviews cited is provided, and a further appendix contains the quoted material in its original language.

The Main Stream of Music, and Other Essays
The Main Stream of Music, and Other Essays

Author: Donald Francis 1875-1940 Tovey

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9781014684820

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Beethoven Essays
Beethoven Essays

Author: Maynard Solomon

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780674063792

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This book contains virtually all of my important Beethoven essays, most of which were written during the past ten years. Primarily, these are depth studies of psychological, historical, and creative issues whose implications cannot be fully explored within the confines of a narrative biography.

German Poetry in Song
German Poetry in Song

Author: Lawrence D. Snyder

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 762

ISBN-13:

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This book is a practical index of 9,800 Lieder composed after 1770, primarily for one voice and piano. The book centers around the poetry from which composers drew their initial inspirations, rather than around the composers themselves. --book jacket.