Beethoven

Name: Beethoven
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ISBN: 9780195328363

ISBN-10: 0195328361

ISBN-13: 9780195328363

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: William Kinderman

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Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets, looking at compositions from different and original perspectives that show Beethoven's art as a union of sensuous and rational, of expression and structure. In analyses of individual pieces, Kinderman shows that the deepening of Beethoven's musical thought was a continuous process over decades of his life. In this new updated edition, Kinderman gives more attention to the composer's early…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


List of Plates


List of music Examples and Figures


Overture



The Bonn Years



The Path to Mastery, 1792-1798



Crises and Creativity, 1799-1802



The Heroic Style I, 1803-1806



The Heroic Style II, 1806-1809



Consolidation, 1810-1812



The Congress of Vienna Period, 1813-1815



The Hammerklavier Sonata, 1816-1818



Struggle, 1819-1822



Triumph, 1822-1824



The `Galitzin' Quartets, 1824-1825



The Last Phase, 1826-1827


Selected Bibliography


Bibliography of Works Cited


Index of Beethoven's Compositions


General Index