Beethoven

Combining musical insight with 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, looking 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. In this new updated edition, Kinderman gives more attention to the composer's early chamber music, his songs, his opera Fidelio, and to a number of often-neglected works of the composer's later years and fascinating projects left incomplete. A revised view emerges from this of Beethoven's aesthetics and the musical meaning of his works. Rather than the conventional image of a heroic and tormented figure, Kinderman provides a more complex, more fully rounded account of the composer.Although Beethoven's deafness and his other personal crises are addressed, together with this ever-increasing commitment to his art, so too are the lighter aspects of his personality: his humor, his love of puns, his great delight in juxtaposing the exalted and the commonplace.

ISBN 0195328361   Pages 428 ISBN13 9780195328363 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc   Weight (grammes) 633 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc   Published in New York Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780198166801 Publication date 01 Jan 2008   Height (mm) 233 Library of Congress 2007038279   Width (mm) 155 DEWEY 780.92   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General, Tertiary education, Undergraduate

		List of Plates
		List of Figures and Music Examples
		Overture		3
1		The Bonn Years		16
2		The Path to Mastery: 1792-1798		32
3		Crisis and Creativity: 1799-1802		61
4		The Heroic Style I: 1803-1806		93
5		The Heroic Style II: 1806-1809		132
6		Consolidation: 1810-1812		162
7		The Congress of Vienna Period: 1813-1815		189
8		The Hammerklavier Sonata: 1816-1818		210
9		Struggle: 1819-1822		233
10		Triumph: 1822-1824		266
11		The Galitzin Quartets: 1824-1825		308
12		The Last Phase: 1826-1827		342
		Selected Bibliography		371
		Works Cited		383
		Index of Beethoven's Compositions		397
		General Index		403

...excellent life and works...outstanding, superbly produced ... Philip Borg-Wheeler, Classical Music

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