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| Named Person: | Ludwig van Beethoven; Ludwig van Beethoven; Ludwig van Beethoven |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William Kinderman |
| ISBN: | 0520087968 9780520087965 019816680X 9780198166801 |
| OCLC Number: | 30036825 |
| Description: | xvi, 374 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Overture -- 1. The Bonn years -- 2. The path to mastery, 1792-1798 -- 3. Crisis and creativity, 1799-1802 -- 4. The heroic style I, 1803-1806 -- 5. The heroic style II, 1806-1809 -- 6. Consolidation, 1810-1812 -- 7. The Congress of Vienna period, 1813-1815 -- 8. The Hammerklavier Sonata, 1816-1818 -- v 9. Struggle, 1819-1822 -- 10. Triumph, 1822-1824 -- 11. The 'Galitzin' Quartets, 1824-1825 -- 12. The last phase, 1826-1827. |
| Responsibility: | William Kinderman. |
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Abstract:
Combining musical insight and 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. Throughout, he looks 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.
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