Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-362) and indexes.
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Some thoughts on biography and a chronology of Beethoven's life and music / Glenn Stanley -- Beethoven at work : musical activist and thinker / Glenn Stanley -- The compositional act : sketches and autographs / Barry Cooper -- The spirit of Mozart from Haydn's hands : Beethoven's musical inheritance / Elaine Sisman -- Phrase, period, theme / Roger Kamien -- The sense of an ending : goal-directedness in Beethoven's music / Nicholas Marston -- The piano music : concertos, sonatas, variations, small forms / William Kinderman -- Beethoven's chamber music with piano : seeking unity in mixed sonorities / Mark Kaplan -- Manner, tone and tendency in Beethoven's chamber music for strings / John Daverio -- Sound and structure in Beethoven's orchestral music/ Leon Botstein -- Beethoven's songs and vocal style / Amanda Glauert -- Beethoven's essay in opera : historical, text-critical, and interpretative issues in Fidelio / Michael C. Tusa -- Probing the sacred genres : Beethoven's religious songs, oratorio, and masses / Birgit Lodes -- With a Beethoven like sublimity : Beethoven in the works of other composers / Margaret Notley -- Beethoven's music in performance : historical perspectives / Alain Frogley -- The four ages of Beethoven : critical reception and the canonic composer / Scott Burnham -- Beethoven at large : reception in literature, the arts, philosophy, and politics / David B. Dennis.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"A wide perspective on Beethoven, his music, and the personal and historical contexts in which the music was composed and has been received."--Cover.
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International Standard Book Number
0521580749
International Standard Book Number
0521589347
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Beethoven, Ludwig van,1770-1827-- Criticism and interpretation.
Beethoven, Ludwig van,1770-1827-- Critique et interprétation.