Author: Leon Plantinga
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393046915
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Accompanied by a booklet of music examples (108 p.: ill.; 21 cm.).

Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486315193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Complete scores of five great Beethoven piano concertos, with all cadenzas as he wrote them, reproduced from authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition. Includes new table of contents.

Author: Antony Hopkins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429773706
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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First published in 1996, this volume counters the attitude of paying more attention to the performer than to the piece. Too often, Anthony Hopkins argues, music is simply regarded as a pleasant background noise to accompany our other activities, whereas Beethoven offers much more than that. Hopkins aim to promote hearing, rather than listening. He examines Beethoven’s piano concertos numbers 1 through 5, along with the violin concerto in D Major, Op. 61, and the Triple Concerto, Op. 56.

Author: Nancy November
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 198720283X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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The three selections in this edition of quartet arrangements of Beethoven’s symphonies are chosen to represent the diversity of quartets as a medium for arrangement in the early nineteenth century. Only the arrangement by Carl Zulehner, of Beethoven’s first symphony, is a string quartet. The arrangement by Johann Nepomuk Hummel of Beethoven’s fifth symphony, for pianoforte, flute, violin, and violoncello (or pianoforte alone), is part of an extensive collection of arrangements that he made for that grouping, while the arrangement for piano quartet by Ferdinand Ries of the Eroica Symphony represents the particular popularity of chamber groupings involving stringed instruments and piano.

Author: Nancy November
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108831753
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Reveals the importance of arrangements of Beethoven's works for nineteenth-century domestic music-making to the history of the classical symphony.

Author: Lewis Lockwood
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039324928X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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“[Beethoven’s] music never grows old— and, enjoyed alongside Mr. Lockwood’s expert commentary, it sparkles with fresh magic.”—Wall Street Journal More than any other composer, Beethoven left to posterity a vast body of material that documents the early stages of almost everything he wrote. From this trove of sketchbooks, Lewis Lockwood draws us into the composer’s mind, unveiling a creative process of astonishing scope and originality. For musicians and nonmusicians alike, Beethoven’s symphonies stand at the summit of artistic achievement, loved today as they were two hundred years ago for their emotional cogency, variety, and unprecedented individuality. Beethoven labored to complete nine of them over his lifetime—a quarter of Mozart’s output and a tenth of Haydn’s—yet no musical works are more iconic, more indelibly stamped on the memory of anyone who has heard them. They are the products of an imagination that drove the composer to build out of the highest musical traditions of the past something startlingly new. Lockwood brings to bear a long career of studying the surviving sources that yield insight into Beethoven’s creative work, including concept sketches for symphonies that were never finished. From these, Lockwood offers fascinating revelations into the historical and biographical circumstances in which the symphonies were composed. In this compelling story of Beethoven’s singular ambition, Lockwood introduces readers to the symphonies as individual artworks, broadly tracing their genesis against the backdrop of political upheavals, concert life, and their relationship to his major works in other genres. From the first symphonies, written during his emerging deafness, to the monumental Ninth, Lockwood brings to life Beethoven’s lifelong passion to compose works of unsurpassed beauty.

Author: Felix Weingartner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048617476X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Three important works by conductor Felix Weingartner (1863–1942) include a detailed account of performing difficulties and interpretation questions involved in each of Beethoven's symphonies, plus the essays "On Conducting" and "The Symphony Since Beethoven."

Author: Johann Sebastian Bach
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457471193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Bach: Concerto in D minor for one clavier * Concerto in F minor for one clavier * Concerto in C Major for two claviers * Concerto in C minor for two claviers * Concerto in D minor for three claviers * Concerto in C Major for three claviers * Concerto in A minor for four claviers. Beethoven: Concerto No. 1 in C (Op. 15) * Concerto No. 2 in B-flat (Op. 19) * Concerto No. 3 in C minor * Concerto No. 4 in G (Op. 58) * Concerto No. 5 in E-flat (Op. 73). Brahms: Concerto in D minor (Op. 15) * Concerto in B-flat (Op. 83).

Author: Robin Stowell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521416443
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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The ten essays in this volume explore different aspects of the performance of instrumental works by Beethoven. Each essay discusses performance issues from Beethoven's time to the present, whether the objective be to realise a performance in an historically appropriate manner, to elucidate the interpretation of Beethoven's music by conductors and performers, to clarify transcriptions by editors or to reconstruct the experience of the listener in various different periods. Four contributions focus on the piano music while another group concentrates on Beethoven's music for strings. These chapters are complemented by an examination of Beethoven's exploitation of the developing wind choir, an evaluation of early twentieth-century recordings as pointers to early nineteenth-century performance practice and an historical survey of rescorings in Beethoven's symphonies.

Author: Claudia Macdonald
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000938824
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Robert Schumann was a unique personality in 19th century music: a celebrated music critic and champion of new composers as well as a talented performer and composer himself, he did much to modernize the literature and performance style for the piano. This book covers the key period of c. 1815-55, exploring how the generation that came after Beethoven was central in reshaping and refining the conception of the concerto style, and particularly the piano concerto. It relates Schumann's own compositional development to his musical environment, recreating the exciting milieu in which Schumann and his contemporaries lived and worked. Written in scholarly, but non-technical language, Robert Schumann and the Development of the Piano Concerto will appeal to college and conservatory teachers and students, as well as music connoisseurs. Also includes 60 musical examples.