In this interpretation of the composer's life and works, Beethoven scholar Lewis Lockwood interweaves the composer's musical and biographical dimensions and places them in their historical and artistic contexts. Written for the lay reader, this book explores the special problems that Beethoven faced as an artist who fulfilled his destiny as Mozart ...
The string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven, the signal achievement of "that noble genre," have rewarded the engagement of scholars, performers, and audiences for almost two hundred years. This book and its accompanying recording invite you to experience three of these profound and beautiful works of music from the inside, with a leading Beethoven ...
'The best of present-day Beethoven scholarship' - Stanley Sadie, editor of "New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians". 'Since 1992, the University of Nebraska Press has published a "Beethoven Forum", which is rich in information and knowledge. Fundamental research and topicality, once the domain of the "Beethoven-Haus in Bonn", are admirably ...
James Webster evaluates the critical tradition of dividing Beethoven's career into three periods and discusses its artificiality and its implications. Jurgen May's essay considers Beethoven's relations with one of the first of his most important patrons. Lewis Lockwood examines Beethoven's sketchbooks to describe how Beethoven composed with and ...
Representing the wide range of approaches that enrich the understanding and appreciation of Beethoven and his interpreters, the second volume in this series features research, criticism, and performers' commentary by nine scholars including Michael C. Tusa, Tia Denora, Lawrence Earp, Lewis Lockwood, William Drabkin, and Kevin Korsyn. Additionally, ...
"The best of present-day Beethoven scholarship." - Stanley Sadie, editor of "New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians". "Since 1992, the University of Nebraska Press has published a Beethoven Forum, which is rich in information and knowledge. Fundamental research and topicality, once the domain of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, are admirably ...
Tia DeNora examines historical depictions of Beethoven's work in late eighteenth-century Vienna. K. M. Knittel also looks critically at traditional assumptions. Janet Schmalfeldt and Thomas Sipe discuss two of Beethoven's most beloved piano sonatas. Richard Taruskin identifies a potential borrowing in the "Fifth Symphony". Alain Frogley ...
Based on extensive documentary and archival research, Music in Renaissance Ferrara is a study of the rise of music at a vital center of Italian Renaissance culture, focusing on the patrons and musicians whose efforts gave Ferrara a primary role in European music during the fifteenth century. The successive rulers of the Italian city-state, members ...
Collecting the best of international Beethoven studies, "Beethoven Forum" promotes and sustains the high level of scholarship inspired by Beethoven's extraordinary works.
Beethoven's ten violin sonatas have long been cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire. The "Spring" and "Kreutzer" sonatas are the best known of these works, which stand at the pinnacle of music for violin and piano. Lewis Lockwood and Mark Kroll's volume The Beethoven Violin Sonatas is the first scholarly book in English devoted exclusively ...
"In this collection of ten articles and one review, there are offerings by leading Beethoven scholars. Particularly impressive are the thought-provoking and provocative articles with innovative approaches to Beethoven musicology, for example, the works of Richard Kramer, Scott Burnham, and Julia Moore on musical narrative, extramusical validations ...
It is well known that Mozart developed his works in his head and then simply transcribed them onto paper, while Beethoven laboured assiduously over sketches and drafts. Indeed Beethoven's extensive sketchbooks (which total over 8,000 pages) and the autograph manuscripts, covering several stages of development, reveal the composer systematically ...
Mary Smith (nee Kelsey) Peake (1823-1862), an American teacher and humanitarian, is best known for having taught children of former slaves under the Emancipation Oak tree in 1861, the first educational effort from which grew Hampton University. She was a free citizen of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Her father was an Englishman and her mother was ...
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