Beethoven Studies 4
About this book
Did you know that Beethoven contemplated, however fleetingly, writing more than forty symphonies and that for the Missa solemnis he sought stimulus from a Latin-German dictionary? And what about the underappreciated sociable side of Beethoven's music to set alongside the familiar one of the heroic? Beethoven Studies 4 is a collection of ten chapters that approach the composer and his music from an appealing range of critical standpoints, aesthetic, analytical, biographical, historical and performance. Alongside essays that offer new information on Beethoven's compositional practice and broaden understanding of the music's contemporary and posthumous appeal, there are essays on his interaction with specific environments, Bonn and post-Napoleonic Austria, and vocal and piano performance practice. The volume will appeal to cultural historians and practitioners as well as Beethoven enthusiasts.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables and Appendices
- List of Music Examples
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 From the Chapel to the Theatre to the Akademiensaal: Beethoven's Musical Apprenticeship at the Bonn Electoral Court, 1784-1792
- 2 Gracious Beethoven?
- 3 Beethoven's Unfinished Symphonies
- 4 Beethoven as Sentimentalist
- 5 Beethoven's Nature: Idealism and Sovereignty from an Ecocritical Perspective
- 6 (Cross-)Gendering the German Voice
- 7 Beethoven and Tonal Prototypes: An Inherited and Developing Relationship
- 8 Shared Identities and Thwarted Narratives: Beethoven and the Austrian Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, 1817-1824
- 9 Composing with a Dictionary: Sounding the Word in Beethoven's Missa solemnis
- 10 Deafly Performing Beethoven's Last Three Piano Sonatas
- Index of Beethoven's Works
- General Index