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Beethoven and his world
Title:
Beethoven and his world
Author:
Burnham, Scott G.
Publication Information:
Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, [2000]

©2000
Physical Description:
x, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
"Published in conjunction with the Bard Music Festival"--Half t.p. verso.
Language:
English
Contents:
Heroic Beethoven. In the time(s) of the "Eroica" / Reinhold Brinkmann ; translated by Irene Zedlacher ; Beethoven, Florestan, and the varieties of heroism / Lewis Lockwood -- Late Beethoven. Memory and invention at the threshold of Beethoven's late style / Elaine Sisman ; Voices and their rhythms in the first movement of Beethoven's piano sonata op. 109 : some thoughts on the performance and analysis of a late-style work / Glenn Stanley ; Voicing Beethoven's distant beloved / Nicholas Marston -- Beethoven in the workshop. Keyboard instruments of the young Beethoven / Tilman Skowroneck ; Contrast and continuity in Beethoven's creative process / William Kinderman -- Beethoven in the world. Performances of grief : Vienna's response to the death of Beethoven / Christopher Gibbs ; The visual Beethoven : whence, why, and whither the scowl? / Alessandra Comini ; Beethoven and masculinity / Sanna Pederson ; The search for meaning in Beethoven : popularity, intimacy, and politics in historical perspective / Leon Botstein.
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ISBN:
9780691070728

9780691070735
Format :
Book