Beethoven's Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beethoven's Century write by Hugh Macdonald. This book was released on 2008. Beethoven's Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays by the noted authority on nineteenth-century music, the topics ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to comic opera to Scriabin and Janácek. In Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes, world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald draws together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time into the early twentieth century. The essays are here revised and updated, and some are printed in English for the first time. Beethoven's Century addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played, andhow today's audiences can usefully approach it. Opening with a revealing analysis of Beethoven's not always generous regard for his listeners, the essays probe aspects of Schubert's musical personality, the brief friendshipbetween Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's abilities as a conductor, and Viennese views of Wagner as expressed by Hugo Wolf. Essays on comic opera and trends in French opera libretti in the late nineteenth century reflect the author's long-standing sympathy for French music, and strikingly eccentric personalities in the world of music, such as Paganini, Alkan, Skryabin, and Janácek, are brought to life. Beethoven's Century concludes with a wrylook at some startling developments in early twentieth-century music that have often been overlooked. Hugh Macdonald has taught music at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Glasgow, and since 1987 has been Avis H. Blewett Distinguished Professor of Music at Washington University, St. Louis. He has written books on Skryabin and Berlioz, and is a regular pre-concert speaker for the Boston and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras.
Beethoven in America
Beethoven in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beethoven in America write by Michael Broyles. This book was released on 2011-10-27. Beethoven in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines America's early reception to Beethoven, the use of his work and image in American music, movies, stage works, and other forms of popular culture, and related topics.
Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow
Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow write by Deirdre Loughridge. This book was released on 2016-09-06. Haydn’s Sunrise, Beethoven’s Shadow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction : audiovisual histories -- From mimesis to prosthesis -- Opera as peepshow -- Shadow media -- Haydn's Creation as moving image -- Beethoven's phantasmagoria -- Conclusion : audiovisual returns
The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini
The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini write by Nicholas Mathew. This book was released on 2013-11-07. The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leading scholars re-evaluate the opposition between Beethoven and Rossini, the great symbolic duo of early nineteenth-century music.
The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony
The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony write by Julian Horton. This book was released on 2013-05-02. The Cambridge Companion to the Symphony available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few genres of the last 250 years have proved so crucial to the course of music history, or so vital to public musical experience, as the symphony. This Companion offers an accessible guide to the historical, analytical and interpretative issues surrounding this major genre of Western music, discussing an extensive variety of works from the eighteenth century to the present day. The book complements a detailed review of the symphony's history with focused analytical essays from leading scholars on the symphonic music of both mainstream composers, including Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven and lesser-known figures, including Carter, Berio and Maxwell Davies. With chapters on a comprehensive range of topics, from the symphony's origins to the politics of its reception in the twentieth century, this is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the history, analysis and performance of the symphonic repertoire.
